I’ve mentioned that there are some problems with this blog in the past. I wasn’t able to fix the problem when users post comments though but I fixed some discomfort on my side.
I often wondered why rebuilding the monhly archive was done in 100-entries-steps altough I had set the setting
EntriesPerRebuild 10I somehow came across this topic in the MovableType Community Forums which suggests to modify some multiplicators in one of MovableType’s core files.
I dug a bit into that and investigated the file lib/MT/App/CMS.pm myself. And there, around line 3495 I found following block, just above the _start_rebuildpages function definition:
my %Limit_Multipliers = (
Individual => 1,
Daily => 2,
Weekly => 5,
Monthly => 10,
Dynamic => 5,
);Obviously these are multiplicators to the EnriesPerRebuild setting but I have no idea why this behaviour is neither configurable via the standard configuration options nor why this is not documented anywhere.
I changed down all of those settings to 1 and now a full site rebuild runs through without any HTTP 500 error, altough the rebuild-status window refreshes much more often now. The commenting error still persists… sigh
Have also been playing around a bit with another visitor statistics tool to get somehow rid of the LevelTen Hit Counter which has served quite well until now but still has a few annoyances. For example it regulary wants to contact it’s producers homepage for "updates". Besides the privacy issue with this it just doesn’t work on on all of my computers/browsers except one. And it refuses to work until it is up-to-date again. With the help of the Web Traffic Analysis Index of AdvanceScripts Script Resource Directory I found the phpMyVisites PHP package. It showed a nice layout and almost the same functionality as the LevelTen Hitcounter and so I decided to give it a try.
Currently both hitcounters are running side-by-side so that I can compare them better but I’m looking forward dropping the old one in the not so far future.