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.

To change the post_status on those pages, you have to change the database directly, using phpMyAdmin or some other database editing tool. Open the wp_posts table, and find the entries that Tarski created. The easy way to do this is to search for all the entries whose post_status is “static”. Those are the ones you want to fix. Simply edit those entries and change post_status to “publish”.

Now those pages will appear in the Manage interface, and anonymous users will be able to see them.

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.

What really happened is that the Windows SSL service was somehow disabled by the SCS install. Instead of being set to automatically run, it was set to manually run, and was stopped by default. Changing this service back to “automatic” and rebooting restored access to secure (https) sites.