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Hi Matt;

I’m not sure where the proper place to talk about MovablePoster issues is, so please feel free to send me to a more appropriate venue…

I’m running MT 2.63, under IIS 5. I’ve had “mixed luck” with various blog posting utilities — w.Bloggar works, Zempt does not, and Kung-Log (under OS-X) did not until I made some changes to Movable Type’s XML-RPC suggested by the Zempt crew. These changes fixed Kung-Log, but not Zempt.

In both cases (Kung-Log originally, and Zempt to-date), the failure came when the program attempted to log in and get a list of blogs.

I seem to be seeing the same problem in MovablePoster 1.0.1.2 — I go into Configure, and enter my username, password, the url for the site (port 80 and the Endpoint path are fine as defaults). When I click on “Select New…” however, it goes away for 45 seconds or so, and comes back with “Unable to retreive a list of blogs at http://www.nonliteral.com. Please make sure your configuration information is correct and try again”.

Any thoughts on how I might get around this? I really like the idea of being able to use Outlook to generate posts…

Thanks!

- Chuck

Chuck,

MovablePoster was originally developed against an IIS server, and *should* work. Since then, I have moved switched hosts to another hosting company which utilizes Linux.

I will reinstall a test blog on an IIS machine at home, and see if I can reproduce your errors.

Thanks for your patience…

–
Matt

thanks, matt!

Just to follow up, this was due to an issue resolved with MovablePoster v1.0.1.3.

In the previous versions, there was an issue when your hostname already had the http:// prefix. The code has now been updated to check for that and not prepend http:// to the URL for the XML-RPC endpoint.

Thanks and wish you better luck! Wonderful job whoever is running things. This is a cool site!