When I applied for hosting at frihost several days ago, my original goal was to install flatpress as the basis for a personal blog. I was looking for a standards-compliant lightweight blogging platform which wouldn't require too much maintenance. Since that original and noble goal I've installed SEVEN different content management systems ranging from the above mentioned all the way to heavy hitters like wordpress and movabletype. Here is what I remember from this ordeal:
Ultimately I compromised and installed wordpress several times for practice and it's what I settled with. With nearly every CMS that I successfully installed I tried to get remote posting to work via the xml-rpc protocol but it failed every time. After a bit of googling, I came across this forum thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240683 which states that an apache module (mod_security) is often setup to block anything with xmlrpc on a webpage.
So, I'm wondering if that's indeed the situation here at frihost. Is there any possibility that the moderators could alter this situation? If not, my plan is to compile the original post in restructuredText, output to html, then copy and paste into wordpress editor.
- flatpress: easy install, flat-files, no sql database required, not too many themes available (mostly copies of wordpress themes), couldn't get xml-rpc working
- habari: advertised as wordpress killer, nice demo, couldn't get installed (prerequisites too steep for frihost?)
- textpattern: easy install, interface seems outdated though it worked fine, limited out-of-the-box themes, uses textile (too bad i'm into reST now), couldn't get xml-rpc working
- pivotx: easy install, has option of using flat-files or database (nice flexibility; I opted for install w/o db), successor to the 2001-looking pivot, very nice eye-candy for the dashtop (very AJAXy), could NOT get xml-rpc working
- nucleus CMS: simple install, intuitive, forgettable, didn't explore much else (probably didn't give it a chance)
- movabletype: comparatively large install file, based on cgi not php, install ultimately failed (due to cgi permissions or other restrictions?), wanted it to work for the nerd factor and also b/c it seems like a secure version of wordpress
- wordpress: read the directions and it's a 5 minute install, security problems galore (i've bookmarked numerous "hardening" tips), themes-galore, xml-rpc doesn't work
Ultimately I compromised and installed wordpress several times for practice and it's what I settled with. With nearly every CMS that I successfully installed I tried to get remote posting to work via the xml-rpc protocol but it failed every time. After a bit of googling, I came across this forum thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/240683 which states that an apache module (mod_security) is often setup to block anything with xmlrpc on a webpage.
So, I'm wondering if that's indeed the situation here at frihost. Is there any possibility that the moderators could alter this situation? If not, my plan is to compile the original post in restructuredText, output to html, then copy and paste into wordpress editor.
I just tried it out and it works just like you described! Now I can access the xml-rpc via an external blogging client. If only I had known about this workaround when I was testing the other CMS's. Oh well, wordpress is just fine once you tweak it. BTW your tidbit of knowledge about mod_security should be stickied so other frihosters are at least aware of what's going on. I know it was frustrating trying to troubleshoot the remote posting issue.
