Bear's Log

Lately I’ve been meaning to increase the frequency of my blog entries but I have been hitting a wall when it comes to pushing the new entries to my web server. Up until recently I would have to do the following to create a new entry:

1. ssh to server where blog mirror is located
2. create a text file with the entry (named a certain way)
3. push the file to the web server
4. spot silly typos, edit and do #3 again

All of this is rather tedious and has been solved any number of ways so I finally decided to upgrade pybloxsom to the latest version so I can take advantage of the metaWeblog API and the fact that Ecto understands that API.

Now that pybloxsom has been updated I’ve been trying to convince ecto to play nice with the server with varying degrees of luck.

p.s. this is the second time I’ve created this entry - it seems that while ecto thought it had published the entry, it wasn’t actually on the server.

p.p.s still have no idea why it won’t post - I see the apache log entries but no file is created. Going to have to dig into pyblosxom logging. Now I know why it won’t post - permissions on the category directory was preventing it!! Who knows why an error wasn’t generated but I suspect a very liberal try:except: that I’m looking at right now.