| Where Should I Start? |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|01:57 pm] |
I must admit I have always used the wordpress platform to build my sites. Like many of the other new people I don't know a whole ton about how to use the Live Journal Platform...yet. My latest website, Adwords Management was built completely on wordpress. How hard would it be to make this site in Live Journal. I'm not sure if I should use a theme that looks similar to this one or if I should just find a new theme..
Is there anyone else here who has recently transformed from a WP user to Live Journal? If so, I'd love to hear your suggestions on how I should get on the fast track of completely understanding and using Live Journal.
Any theme suggestions would be awesome!
Looking forward to your feedback!
Brent Folger
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| Still getting this error on this error with fotoup.pl |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|12:44 pm] |
$ ~/bin/fotoup.pl --gallery="2009-06-Raleigh" --under="2009" *.jpg
Reading local files...
001/008 [12.50%]
002/008 [25.00%]
003/008 [37.50%]
004/008 [50.00%]
005/008 [62.50%]
006/008 [75.00%]
007/008 [87.50%]
008/008 [100.00%]
Getting challenge...
Checking for existing files...
To upload: 8 from data, 0 from receipt
Uploading from data: CIMG0124.jpg
Adding to gallery: 2009-06-Raleigh
>>> ERROR: [Error 211] Invalid argument: Malformed date:
>>> (will try again in 5 seconds)
Uploading from data: CIMG0124.jpg
Getting challenge...
Adding to gallery: 2009-06-Raleigh
>>> ERROR: [Error 211] Invalid argument: Malformed date:
>>> (will try again in 5 seconds) |
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| Oh Where to Begin? |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|01:07 pm] |
Hey there everyone. Please forgive me if this is the wrong section, I am new. lol
I have been developing wordpress websites/blogs quite successfully for the past two years or so and had a bit of a background in hand coding before that, I am not however, a "pro" web designer by any means. This is more of a hobby than anything (currently work for an mrp software manufacturer/provider by day, still in the tech industry though) :)
I have had a number of potential clients request for me to develop them a website on the LJ platform and truth be told, I really know very little about LJ.
I feel that I am just leaving money on the table by sending these prospects away. I think more than anything, I am really just hoping that someone might get me pointed in the right direction here, maybe a few great tutorials, developers sheet, anything at this point. I would really like to start at the bottom and go from there. One problem I have found, is that when you get used to working with WP's structure and templating system, you seem to become quite used to it, and find it difficult to work in other environments.
- Keith
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| Apache 500 internal error |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|04:14 pm] |
Hello,
I used to run a sever with the livejournal source code. I had my share of problems getting it working on slackware back then. I am now using Ubuntu, and finally got apache and mod_perl compiled under Ubuntu. So now I am starting from scratch again.
I have tried fresh installs of the lj files a couple of times. Apache starts but returns an internal apache 500 error code page for all requests. error_log shows:
[error] Can't call method "notes" on an undefined value at /ljsite/cgi-bin/Apache/BML.pm line 1968.\n
The DBCHECK script also returns Bogus DB: at bin/dbcheck.pl line 117. which makes me think there is a problem wiht the db connection, may be hanging the rest of it up. It isnt giving the LJ Internal DB connection problem page however. So I think it has to do with, not having BML setup? or something else.
I am using the instructions at www.livejournal.com/doc/server
Are there any updated installation docs?
Any suggestions are appreciated, trying to get back into it.
Thanks! |
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| Trying to backup Scrapbook under MacOS X |
[Jun. 14th, 2009|09:13 pm] |
I'm trying to backup my LJ Scrapbook using fotoup.pl. When I run it I get the following error:
$ ./fotoup.pl --backup
To upload: 0 from data, 0 from receipt
Fetching export.xml from server...
Couldn't fetch export XML file from server
I found online the krellis.org version of fotoup.pl that's 'pose to fix this problem.
But his version uses WWW::Mechanize and WWW::Mechanize doesn't come installed with stock MacOS X 10.5.7 perl. So when I run his version I get:
$ ./fotoup.pl-krellis --backup
Can't locate WWW/Mechanize.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .) at ./fotoup.pl-krellis line 22.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./fotoup.pl-krellis line 22.
Is there a working version of fotoup.pl for macosx? I can upload with the version I have, but I can't download/backup given the errors above.
Update: Nevermind. I solved it.
# sudo -H /usr/bin/cpan -i WWW::Mechanize
cpan comes with the XCode development package. |
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| FlashJournal |
[Jun. 2nd, 2009|07:05 pm] |
FlashJournal is a mobile LJ client based on Flash Lite v.2.0 This is a first version of program - 0.1
Features:
connecting to livejournal.com server =)
posting entries to journal with choosing your avatar, tags,music,location,mood.
It work on devices width 240*320 screen resolution and above.
For working need Flash Lite v.2.0 and over.
Download : Symbian 9.2 and newst smartphones , others devices.
community:![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) fj_client |
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| Bug in console when adding freinds |
[May. 19th, 2009|03:47 pm] |
There is a big in the admin console when adding a friend. This exists on the current LJ installation as well as any site using the code. When you add a friend via the console who is already a friend of yours, their groupmask gets wiped out.
The bug is in cgi-bin/LJ/Console/Commands/Friend.pm here is a diff that I created that seems to fix it.
--- Friend.pm.bak 2009-05-19 15:29:42.000000000 -0400
+++ Friend.pm 2009-05-19 15:47:19.000000000 -0400
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@
} else {
$self->error("You don't have a group called '$group'.");
}
- }
+ } else {
+ $gmask = LJ::get_groupmask($remote, $fu);
+ }
my $opts = {};
$opts->{'groupmask'} = $gmask if $gmask;
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| Add a preview button to the comment quickreply |
[May. 19th, 2009|05:02 pm] |
There's a Dreamwidth patch I'd really, really love LJ to take up, and the community profile says contributions to LiveJournal code can be submitted here. It's adding a preview button to the quick reply comment box (more details here, including who made this beloved patch). I looked at the changes and they're pretty simple, so even if the patch doesn't apply cleanly (I think it will), it should be easy to recreate.
There's probably other little patches DW has that would be good for LJ to use--quick little things that might be nifty and won't take much work to apply. Should I look for more? Hearts. |
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| IJ Comment Rot Issue Found |
[May. 15th, 2009|04:00 pm] |
So I have posted about this numerous times and haven't been able to figure it out up until today. For those of you here who don't know, I run InsaneJournal. And I am sure some of you are aware that we have been experiencing an issue that was termed "Comment Rot".
I have been trying to figure out the cause of this for about 2 years. Today I finally found the culprit. There is a setting $NEW_ENTRY_CLEANUP_HACK that will under certain circumstances comments and entry properties from an entry. I have no idea why I even had this enabled. I am just posting this here to warn anyone else off of using this setting .... ever. It is an old legacy hack and should probably be removed from the code entirely. |
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| Themes |
[Apr. 29th, 2009|08:11 am] |
I downloaded the LiveJournal code to use on our company's intranet. Everything installed fine; however, it seems there is something missing with the themes. When I click on a Category (/customize) I get a JavaScript run-time error: Line 57 Hourglass is undefined. Also when I apply one of the themes the theme style sheets are not loaded and get a blank background with no theme. Is the themes included under the free and open source download?
Thank you for your help! |
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| Querying paid status of an account |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|05:50 am] |
I've been working on MultiLJ lately, specifically adding a Poll Creator, and was wondering if there was a convenient way to query whether the user had a Paid Account or not. I'd like to be able to enable/disable the feature, depending on that status, rather than have an unpaid user try to submit a poll and have the post be rejected.
Any hints? |
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| Community down? |
[Apr. 19th, 2009|11:12 am] |
So what would cause nothing but ONE community to generate the "Site down" message? Oh, and it's only for people who aren't logged in. Pretty much:
-The main site is accessible.
-Any other journal is accessible to anyone.
-The community is accessible to anyone who is logged in.
-Apache doesn't say anything about it.
-MySQL isn't anywhere near the max connections globally.
-System utilization isn't much of anything.
To be specific, the message is:
Sorry
We're currently working on something. The site will be back up shortly. |
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| Getting this error when trying to create a community |
[Apr. 6th, 2009|03:41 pm] |
I used to get this error ANY time I tried to create a user or community, but after turning off the TOS for normal users, it's gone there. Something to do with the fact that my TOS file is blank?
Given uniq is not a valid layout or theme: at /home/lj/cgi-bin/LJ/S2Theme.pm line 174. |
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