Sorry to hear of your departure from s9y... I frequently hear the opposite of your experience..... such as "WP is bloated, slow, difficult to use, constantly requires updating, etc, etc...." but, if you think it is the better choice, then go for it. I have never used WP so I have no personal ...

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I guess gloating over other projects problems is alway easy. Professional courtesy etc..?

Well...I was just making a point here. Serendipity cares about Security more than offering a feature that can be considered very harmful.

About the migration, I can't help simply because I don't use ...

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because of "security issues"

If you look at WP, that's my point exactly - no wonder they have it ;)

Good look with the migration! Maybe you can ask for support on the WP forums as for specifics of import procedures.

Regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin,

Thanks for your "in-depth" reply.

I guess ...

Hi Guys,

I know this is probably not going to be a popular post, but I have to post it anyway :oops:

After 4+ years of using S9Y and experiencing various problems with it (especially with upgrading), I started to test Wordpress 8 months ago, running a shadow copy of my blog on my server at Site5 ...

Ok, but how come that when I use RSS feeds in the front-end it does not kill S9y? Just the backend?

Do you use the same feeds in the frontend? I can easily imagine some errors being caught and handled by the Onyx RSS library, while others cause fatal exceptions that stop the script.

If you are ...

I've just spent some time looking for a better answer. I can't find a PHP parser for RSS feeds that's still supported. Both Onyx and Magpie appear to be abandoned. That leaves writing my own. *shudder*

I hate this problem. Wasn't HTTP_Request supposed to take care of all this error handling for us ...

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I need to check with jannis why the blog is down.

Sadly, PHP is VERY unforgiving when network stuff fails, there is often no way to catch those fatally network routing errors, because often PHP bails out due to timeout issues completely. I have no solution to that; detecting "down" sites is ...

thanks, I'm going to check it out sounds cool!

Hey: I have a NSLU2 lying here doing nothing: how the heck are you running *anything*on it? Doesn't it require a harddisk attached to it? I mean: the thing itself has hardly any memory?

Did you use Unslung or something like that?

I bought it years ago thinking it might be a good NAS solution, but ...

I am running serendipty 1.3 happily on my 32mb 266mhz ARM slug - not the biggest/fastest server on the planet I know.

When I try to upgrade to 1.4 the web page just times out.

Watching the process on the box my php-cgi is running at 100% cpu for a good length of time after the web page fails.

I ...

Maybe this helps?

This is the version header:

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I assume this is caused due to your provider having blocked network connections to hosts, and possibly because you use the RSS admin backend plugin. This one is the only I can think of that tries to open a foreign network connection.

Either your provider must remove the firewalling, or you ...

Okay, this may be a little beyond me. I need Garvin to confer.

The plugin simply uses the bundled Onyx RSS module. That, in turn, uses the bundled HTTP module and HTTP_Request. It was my understanding that both of these modules pass errors up, instead of allowing the running program to fail.

It ...

You can move the serendipity_event_backendrss/ directory outside the plugins/ directory, and it'll no longer attempt to read any feeds.

That COMPLETELY solved the problem.

Now, this is S9y 1.2.1 (older version) but I totally would catgeorize this as a MAJOR flaw as the fact that just one feed ...

Does your edit mean that you do have multiple feeds, and it's not retrieving the S9Y latest blogs feed, causing the rest of the backend to fail hard?

Exactly!

I have other (external) feeds there and they work, but I also retrieve 2 local feeds (comments and my own posts....

Weird that the whole ...