{"id":7334,"date":"2005-03-28T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/28\/ping-pong.html"},"modified":"2005-03-28T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T23:06:04","slug":"ping_pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/ping_pong.html","title":{"rendered":"Ping pong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d been wondering why my Trackback listing hadn’t changed in over a month. Granted, fewer people are “doing it” than in the past, but, still …<\/p>\n

So I tried posting something to another of my blogs, pointing back at a post here.<\/p>\n

The post session gets an odd message:<\/p>\n

Odd number of elements in hash assignment at (eval 35) line 7. line 268.<\/p>\n

That repeats serveral times.<\/p>\n

The Activity Log, in turn, shows:<\/p>\n

Ping ‘https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/mt\/mt-tb.cgi\/6982’ failed: HTTP error: 404 Not Found<\/p>\n

Hrm. Especially since I can see that trackbacks are turned on for that post, and that’s the value that comes up for that page to ping to.<\/p>\n

Time for a little research.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Well. It would help if the file mt-tb.cgi <\/em>actually existed<\/em>. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Which may be related to this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Okay, renamed my mt-tb.cgi file (on my hard drive, then uploaded it) and updated the mt.cfg file to match it (see here<\/a>). And now Trackback works.<\/p>\n

How … annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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