March 2007

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Catching static from your archives page?

March 2, 2007 in Wordpress | No comments



I’m using the Tarski theme, and loving it. It does a lot of things really well, which makes the one or two awkward bits stand out that much more. If you have Tarski create “Archives” and “Tags” pages, make sure they are viewable by anonymous users. When I logged out and viewed those pages, 404 errors (Page not found) were shown.

Apparently, WordPress 2.1+ doesn’t display pages with any post_status other than ‘publish’ to anonymous users. The pages Tarski creates are created with the post_status ’static’. This needs to be changed from ’static’ to ‘publish’ before anonymous users can see your Archives and Tags pages. However, those pages won’t even appear in the Manage section of the administrative interface.

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Access denied

March 1, 2007 in Windows | 1 comment



My company is making everyone upgrade to the latest Symantec firewall/antivirus combo. The upgrade to Symantec Client Security worked fine on my desktop (other than the three reboots required to uninstall the existing antivirus and firewall pieces), but weird things started happening on my laptop after I upgraded.

The first thing I noticed happening was that Gmail Notifier couldn’t connect. It kept failing to connect to the server, returning error 12029, “Can not log in to mailbox”. Firefox could open Google Mail without a problem, but Internet Explorer could not. I looked in the new firewall log to see if some new rule was messing things up, and sure enough, access was being blocked due to the rule “Block access to secure sites”. That turned out to be a spectacularly unhelpful rule.

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