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abacquer



Joined: 22 Mar 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:43 am    Post subject: HTTP 500 Errors While Trying to Post Articles Reply with quote

It's been a very bad year for me and my use of my blog has slowed considerably. Nowadays I'm lucky if I can post once or twice a month. But it never fails when I try to do so that I get an HTTP 500 error and often have to try the post multiple times before it works. And I have to preview it first, because when it inevitably fails to post, if I didn't use preview, then the article information is gone when I use the browser's back button to try to post again.

Why does this keep happening? It's incredibly annoying. I just spent 2 hours putting a long article together and have tried to post it about a dozen times. HTTP 500 every time.

So I am simply leaving the article editting window open and I'll try again later... I can't even save the article to publish later.
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john
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Joined: 16 Mar 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:20 am    Post subject: Re: HTTP 500 Errors While Trying to Post Articles Reply with quote

Do your articles have a lot of links in them? If so, the issue might be with something called "auto-discovery for remote trackback pings", which is an esoteric feature that scans your post for links, then checks each website to see if it's a blog, and sends a "trackback" to it, all before posting your article. So if you have a lot of links in your posts then this could cause errors when posting if the process that does all that remote stuff takes too long.

So I just went to your control panel at Settings & Security >> Publishing Defaults >> Post and unchecked this box:

Use auto-discovery for remote trackback pings

Your problems will likely be minimized going forward as long as you don't manually check Use auto-discovery for remote pings under Advanced Options on the Post Article page when creating your articles.

If you still see posting problems after that, please send us a support request.
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abacquer



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:38 am    Post subject: Problem Solved! Reply with quote

That seems to have solved the problem, thanks John. Smile
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