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Subtext Admin Password Does Not Work

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Open Source For some reason, some Subtext blogs may have an issue whereas no matter if you use the reset password or not, you can’t log back into your Admin interface.  That is, the url http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain.com/admin. I ended up having to actually update not the Subtext_Host table (as outlined here) but rather the Subtext_Config.  What’s the difference?  Well, the Subtext_Host holds auth information for signing into the Host Admin tool: http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain/hostadmin while the Subtext_Config table has config settings for your blog including username & password for your blog, or in other words, to log into http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain.com/admin So to...

posted @ Monday, April 13, 2009 1:01 AM | Feedback (0)

How to Setup Google FeedBurner for Subtext Blog RSS

Pmall Tags: Subtext Plain & simple steps: 1) Get your Subtext blog live 2) Create a Google FeedBurner account.  It’s tied to a Gmail account so you need to log in first when you arrive at feedburner.google.com 3) Type in your domain in to start creating a feedburner account:     4) Give it a decent title.  This is what will show up in the user’s Google Reader, or whatever RSS aggregator they are using 5) This step is critical!  it must be the right url to your Subtext Rss.aspx!  For Subtext, you need to make sure that you...

posted @ Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:24 AM | Feedback (0)

“Your Blog Does Not Support Picture Publishing” Error with Subtext & Live Writer

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Windows Live Writer You will get this generic error in Live writer.  It’s based on a permission problem when trying to post to Subtext. If you are hosting Subtext on your own public server, or ISP..in either situation, the Subtext skins/yourskin/images folder must have write permissions for Network Service account on your domain server, or else you will get this error when trying to post with a picture in Live Writer to Subtext 2.1

posted @ Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:51 PM | Feedback (0)

Subtext 2.1 – A great .NET Open Source Blogging Platform

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Open Source If you are looking for a free .NET based open source blogging application, Subtext may be for you or your company.  It’s a mature and established blogging framework founded by MS employee Phil Haack.  My site is using Subtext and I’ve been very happy with it as compared to solutions such as Telligent Community Server which are not free and are quite heavy and complicated just for running a simple blog for you or your company. Here is the rundown of its current benefits as I’ve experienced: > Free > OpenID integration > Constantly changes...

posted @ Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:17 PM | Feedback (23)

Windows Live Writer and Line Return Weirdness

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Windows Live Writer,CSS The other day, when I started posting my first few posts, I was getting some weirdness in Windows Live Writer as it pertains to carriage returns.  For example, when typing a post in Live Writer, a single line return appeared to be placing 3 line returns visually.  The end result was a really spaced out looking blog post that just seemed strange to me while I was writing. This problem produced two results: a) When publishing my post, I noticed that on the live site, the line returns were showing up as one, not...

posted @ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:03 PM | Feedback (0)

How-To: Setup Subtext with Windows Live Writer for Localhost

Technorati Tags: Subtext,Windows Live Writer,Open Source,Tools Subtext is a great open source blogging application that is free and has simply been getting better and better over time.  This allows you to post to your blog locally for whatever reasons that you may have a need to do so (testing custom code, etc.). To setup Windows Live Writer to work with Subtext for localhost, perform the following steps below. (At the time of this post I was using Subtext v2.0 with Windows Live Writer v12.0.1370.325 and has also worked in previous versions of Live Writer)  ...

posted @ Friday, September 05, 2008 1:42 AM | Feedback (0)