Since the move to the new server, most things have gone reasonably well. One little thing is still bugging me; I’ve tried a few ways to fix it, and have been unsuccessful. I’m wondering if any of our readers have the knowledge to help (required knowledge will be a little bit of understanding of Java, PHP and\/or CGI).<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Got it! Thanks to Quinn Warnick <\/a>, the fiction editor for Irreantum, the magazine of the Association of Mormon Letters<\/a>, for the tip. The original extended entry read:<\/p>\n When I reinstalled movable type, I didn’t install it in the cgi-bin, where it had been previously installed. (I read that that can cause problems). So it’s in its own directory now.<\/p>\n The problem is that the location of mt-comments.cgi has changed. <\/p>\n Formerly, to get to comments on thread 160, the address was: <\/p>\n http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/cgi-bin\/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=160<\/p>\n It is now:<\/p>\n http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/mt\/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=160<\/p>\n Everything works fine from the page. However, visitors who arrive via search engine are being directed to the old comment links, which are no longer valid.<\/p>\n I’m relatively sure that it would be possible to code a CGI script in java that would take a look at the web address input, chop off the last 3 digits (i.e. the post number), and redirect to a correct address for that post number. But I don’t know how such a script would be coded. <\/p>\n (By the way, I’ve tried setting a redirect on http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/cgi-bin\/mt-comments.cgi . That didn’t work. Apparently, because the query wasn’t just for mt-comments.cgi but also had the entry id in the string. And I really, really don’t want to set up 200 redirects, one for each entry id.)<\/p>\n If anyone out there knows how this would be done, I would welcome advice. Note that (1) this isn’t really urgent, and (2) I may eventually figure it out on my own. I don’t expect anyone to spend any substantial time learning java or anything like that — if you don’t know how to do this, don’t worry, I’ll eventually figure it out. The problem looks pretty simple and I suspect that anyone with much knowledge of java could hammer out the solution in a 30-second e-mail.<\/p>\n By the way, speaking of e-mail, I still have to reconfigure T & S e-mail, so it’s not working at the moment. Please send any solutions to this address (after removing the anti-spam guard):<\/p>\n kwen**NOSPAM**ger@crav**NOSPAM**ath.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the move to the new server, most things have gone reasonably well. One little thing is still bugging me; I’ve tried a few ways to fix it, and have been unsuccessful. I’m wondering if any of our readers have the knowledge to help (required knowledge will be a little bit of understanding of Java, PHP and\/or CGI). UPDATE: Got it! Thanks to Quinn Warnick , the fiction editor for Irreantum, the magazine of the Association of Mormon Letters, for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe problem has been fixed. <\/p>\n