FastCGI Revisited

Remember...
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James, 1842 - 1910

I rolled back Movable Type to version 3.33 in an effort to solve the FastCGI problem, only to discover I still got caught up on the plugins page as I feared.

I poured over the error log, and the persistent error was lib/MT/Plugin.pm line 465, which had something to do with UTF-8 encoding. There were also errors relating to make bm link, bm js and reg file: all files associated with alogblog's Quick Image Post. I managed to disable this plugin, and upload mt.fcgi to over-write the online version, and all seems to be working okay now. My best bet is probably try to steer clear of plugins for a while.

I implemented a new plugin to add a captcha-like field to the comment form, requiring a word of text to be entered, for further spambot security, as well as renaming the comment and trackback scripts.

The comments are locked down tight now, and I hope to have a reprieve from comment spam for a little while. We can only hope.

Update: Okay, I was a little premature, and should really have stayed away from the plugins page. I didn't need to uninstall quick Image Post at all, and now I think that some of the plugins I have installed, may need to have an fcgi extension. I have several errors from StyleCatcher, and Widget Manager, all proceeded by the line maketext doesn't know how to say:. For now I just avoid the plugins, or continue to overwrite mt.fcgi if I use that page.