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[John Joseph Bachir <jjb AT ibiblio.org>]

you fixed xmlrpc! you are a hero!!

i was going to add it to the ticket but i see you've already made 
comments. paul, is the info you gave here state the latest and greatest?

http://source.ibiblio.org/trac/lyceum/ticket/253



On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Paul Hagstrom wrote:

> I also noticed the xmlrpc.php problem and posted my solution to the
> wiki (perhaps that's not the proper way to go about it, I'm new to
> the Lyceum community).
>
> What I posted is here:
>
> http://wiki.lyceum.ibiblio.org/index.php/Workarounds
>
> And what it says is basically this:
>
> Add
>
> RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/xmlrpc.php /blog/xmlrpc.php?b=$1 [L]
>
> to your .htaccess file (although you need to fix the redirection URL
> to match your setup if your blogs are somewhere other than /blog).
> That will get xmlrpc.php to run, but I also found that I needed to
> make a change to xmlrpc.php to make it multi-blog aware.  I use ecto
> on the Mac to post, and I use the MovableType API, so I only fixed
> the one spot that was giving me trouble in xmlrpc.php, which is in
> the retrieval of categories -- as distributed, .33 retrieves all
> categories from all blogs when a category is requested.  I changed a
> line around line 900 from this:
>
>  if ($cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_ID, cat_name FROM $wpdb-
> >categories", ARRAY_A)) {//lyceum; TODO make multi-blog
>
> to this:
>
>  if ($cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_ID, cat_name FROM $wpdb-
> >categories WHERE blog = ".$blog, ARRAY_A)) {
>
> and now it seems to be working just fine.  I'm sure that there's an
> analogous change you can make for the other APIs as well.
>
> The association between posts and blogs is mediated by the category/
> categories a post belongs to, so as long as the post is assigned a
> category in the right blog, it should show up where you expect it
> to.  So, as long as xmlrpc.php retrieves only the categories from the
> appropriate blog, posting via XMLRPC should work.  At least it works
> with ecto, I haven't tried anything else.
>
> I haven't stress-tested this yet, but it's worked pretty much
> perfectly in my initial tests..
>
> I did, by the way, also post these to the bug database as well..
>
>  -Paul
>
>
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Rewrite rules does not process urls like .../xmlrpc.php
> > For this reason external authoring applications like FF's addon
> > Deepest Sender (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1811/) does not
> > work :(
> >
> > --
> > Regards, Al
> > http://blogs.tks.ru/
>
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