I get tons of spam comments on this blog. I think it’s a common problem rather than it is because this blog is so popular(it isn’t). One of the tools for dealing with spam here is Akismet, the other one is me.
The other day I decided to do some maintenance on this site. The first thing I did was to do a backup of all files, by downloading via FTP. Then I did some changes locally, deleted this blog on the server, and uploaded it again. Since I hadn’t changed anything that could possibly go wrong I didn’t test the site afterwords, I just check that it was there on devcase.com and it was. Big mistake. In fact, it was only the fist page that was good, no other pages worked and I didn’t notice until today, a few days later.
What had happened was that the FTP program ignored hidden files, which includes the essential .htaccess which meant that the Apache web server didn’t know how to serve my permalinks. It was my fault obviously, not a fault of the FTP program. It as a background task while doing other things but I should have been more careful and pay more attention to what I was doing. Oh well, it won’t happen again.
I really like ScribeFire. It’s a blog authoring tool in form of a Firefox extension. The features I like most are:
Do you use ScribeFire?
