jkearman

Well, I have solved my problem but it doesn’t make sense. I turned off “Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.” For some reason it was blocking everyone including me when I was logged out. The comments were in the database, marked as ‘spam’ .

Sorry for all the bw but maybe this will help someone else. And I’d like to know how to keep the bad proxies from spamming me by the carload. Thanks.

I’m having the same problem with my blog, which I moved to a new hosting company two weeks ago (from HostDime to HostGator). I dragged the files across directly, as well as the database. All old posts are there and I can make new posts. But no one can comment Interesting: I logged out and tried to make a comment. Then I tried again with the same text. Got the message “you said that already.” So something’s awake.

I wonder if it has to do with the IP addresses allowed to access the MySQL database? I thought I had them the same on the new server: 127.0.0.1 and localhost. I’m still running WP 1.5.1.2 but it was working fine and I’m reluctant to install a newer version and add another layer. It’s running on Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b

Jim