Follow-up: Two days later, and I cannot reproduce the silently rejected attempts to comment. So there's nothing to investigate, except it's a little worrisome that whatever trouble there was, it didn't tell the user there was a problem nor leave a log.
--David On Jan 22, 8:24 pm, David <david.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: > My friends just told me that their attempts to post to my Habari 0.8 > site have been silently failing. (The page seemingly reloads with > form data populated with what they just submitted, without the > expected notice that the "comment is pending moderation".) > > The failed comments are not marked as spam. When looking at the > Comments admin panel, filtering to show *everything* the failed > comments still don't show up at all. > > I can reproduce their experience sometimes - when in Chrome Incognito > mode, and from Safari on a Macintosh. Otherwise, commenting works as > expected, they go into moderation, and I get email notification. > > I don't know anything about HTTP or PHP, so I'll provide this info: > > Site:http://david.dlma.com/habari/ > PHP Version:http://david.dlma.com/phpinfo.php > I've turned off all plugins except Core Dash Modules 1.1, Flickr Media > Silo 1.0, Habari Media Silo 1.0.1 and Undelete 1.0. > I've set logging to any and debug, but neither one logs anything when > comments don't successfully get recorded. On that note, there are no > suspicious warnings or errors in the logs after the comment failures. > > I did customize the comment form like so (adding a txt exension to a > copy of the actual files so that you can see > them):http://david.dlma.com/habari_theme_visible/theme.php.txthttp://david.dlma.com/habari_theme_visible/comments.php.txthttp://david.dlma.com/habari_theme_visible/formcontrol_text.php.txt > > Three questions: > > 1. Does anybody know why sometimes commenting succeeds, and why it > sometimes silently fails (when it's not marked as spam)? (Please feel > free to experiment at my site. I'll eventually delete successful > comments that are only for debugging purposes.) > 2. Is there a way to notify the user why their attempt to comment > failed? > 3. Setting Admin->Options->Publishing->Comment SPAM Threshold to 100 > percent is not understood by me. What does that number actually do? > > Thanks in advance, > --David -- To post to this group, send email to habari-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to habari-users-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users
