No more Spam, hopefully

David Harris — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:48:00 -0400

So recently this blog has become major spam fodder. I’ve had little time to wade through the comments and trackbacks lately, and the old version of Typo required about 3 clicks to delete a single comment or trackback, with no optionfor bulk deleting. I’ve already experimented with the latest Typo subversion trunk on my other blog, so I knew it had a lot of better spam prevention and management features, including Akismet support.

Only a simple “svn up; rake db:migrate” didn’t quite do it this time. I visited the blog only to find a crazy batch of mysql errors, such as “unknown column contents.body_html” and others. Uhhh.

To save time, after freaking out a little I decided to check the fastcgi processes running under my account. I opened up top and found I had 5 still running! This is crazy to me, because normally those processes crash with a nice http 500 error every minute or two, so of course they stay intact when I need them to crash. Simply killing those processes made everything work again.

So bear with me as I remove all the spam up here, it may take a few days. I may also switch engines to Mephisto, which I fell in love with recently. And forgive me even more for the lack of content, but I’m hoping things will allow me to resume work on Fictiverse and get that tutorial up and running.

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No more Spam, hopefully