We installed an XSERVE and are unable to post podcast. We receive a HTTP status 500 error as well. Apple support seems to have no answers.

Also the server will not update its software.

Has anyone found a solution or cause?

/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/templates

But if you just wanted to change one blogger’s “html.vm” template, you can make a new directory called

/Library/Tomcat/blojsom_root/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF//templates

if it doesn’t exist already, and copy files you want to subclass over from the main templates directory.

I realize this blog hasn’t been posted to in some time, but I am hoping that someone might see this. I have an Apple blog that, mysteriously, has lost some entries and comments. They simple ceased to exist on the blog and they don’t appear anywhere in the file structure. We haven’t deleted the entries, the users, or anything of that nature. I know in the admin panel, there is an entry for “comment expiration”. That had no entry in the field and just in case, I’ve added zero to it to make sure items don’t expire. Is there anyone that has had this disappearing content issue? If so, did you notice what was causing it or solve it yourself. Please contact me if you have and thanks for your help.

Matt Maciag
Bullock Creek Schools
Midland, MI

The places where you’re getting the errors are the places that Apple altered the base Blojsom package so that it would work better for what they wanted. Templates was one of those, as Apple changed the standard Blojsom templates out for their own custom setup.

HTTP Status 500 - The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. This is followed by about 30 lines of errors

Anyone else having this problem ?
Otherwise using Blojsom’s been a blast

neil

Adding new themes to Apple’s weblog server

so we had a look at movable type but for corporate use it’s prohibitively expensive. we have settled on WordPress. It’s excellent and with the vast amount of plugins it’s really powerful and free.

Thanks

You’ve just found the easiest fix to this problem that I’d yet run across. Thanks!

Problem solved. Too easy to be easy.

They hardly did- its a GUI for one of many available blogging tools that one can run already. I run on my G4 laptop every app on my enterprise server- MovablTpe, WordPress, phpBB, UseMod wiki… just need to get under the shiny hood.

Kind of curious since their Apple Education Communities is running WordPress.

PS- I love Apple, I love my Macs, and have been deeply in love since 1987 with them. Just hate to see mis-information out there.

http://www.uniquipinc.com/weblog/religionmine/

Has anybody had success with adding a link list. I realize you need access to either the include files (not sure how blojsom works, this is the way it is done in WP) or a default page where you might have the ability to add div tags and customize the page layout. Is this possible through adding plug-ins in the Blojsom admin console? Any input would be much appreciated. So close Apple…

Shoot me an email at macadmin@theappleblog.com along with a screenshot with the error and I’ll try to help you out.

Thanks

Could you please restate your problem?

Thanks

You may want to check with Chris Ross over at MacProfessionals, as he’s figured out how to do this: http://www.macprofessionals.com/weblog/cross/

Then I spun a long while looking for the configuration templates so I could swap that “X” image for my own logo, at least.

I’m hoping blojsom admin tools will help

Apple’s blog ser…

The reason those are giving your errors is that Apple’s altered their blog server from Blojsom in how it handles blog themes. I talked to the Apple developer who adapted Blojsom for Apple’s use and asked him how I could use Blojsom themes with Apple’s blog server. He told me that they’d gone away from the themes that Blojsom uses, in favor of CSS stylesheets. That’s probably why the flavor and template settings aren’t working, because Apple’s altered them from what they’d be on a default install of Blojsom.

weblog settings -> flavors
weblog settings -> templates

the error seems to be related to apache/tomcat servelet BlojsomServlet attempting to find the EditBlogTemplatesPlugin.

—–
type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request

exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.blojsom.plugin.admin.EditBlogTemplatesPlugin.process¬
(EditBlogTemplatesPlugin.java:124)
at org.blojsom.servlet.BlojsomServlet.service(BlojsomServlet.java:407)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)

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Do additioal plugins have to be installed for these menus to work? Any help is appreciated.

Av Joacim Melin 5 Juli 2 [...]

I looked around at blogging software a bit lately, and actually tried Blojsom seriously for a while. The best thing about it is that it runs as a Java servlet. So, if you already have Tomcat running, it’s an easy install.

For actual use, I’ve switched to Drupal. It’s a PHP app. It works well, and the admin UI is slightly less convoluted than Blojsom.

What config file did you edit in order to enable email notification of comments? Thanks.

Banning is available in a number of flavors including IP bans.

You can disable comments for a blog in general or a specific post. I like usign the meta plugin along with the macro plugin to simplify things.

Unfortunately I am more familiar with blojsom than the Tiger install of it. I do have a Tiger server though so I will check out what is available by default and try and give some better guidance.

Some of this will require editing at the text config level by the way.