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1. gcraya16
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am having problems with using programs to create blog posts offline. I do have the xmlrpc button checked in the Writing Settings. I started try to use Windows Live Writer, but it didn't work. It gave me the xmlrpc.php error. I searched all over the web for a solution. I tried contacting my host to see if they were blocking access to the file. I tried editing my .htaccess file. But when I did this it gave me a 500 error message. I tried editing the php.ini file. I tried disabling all plugins and still no avail. I think I tried everything. I also tried a different blogging software. I tried ScribeFire and it gave me a similiar error. So I don't know what is the problem. I am new to this so I tried everything I could think of and everything i searched.
   Please help,
   Gus

2. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You didn't indicate what error Windows Live Writer or ScribeFire indicated. That would be helpful in tracking down what the problem is.

3. gcraya16
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sorry. This is the entire error message from Live Writer:
   An error occured while attempting to connect to your weblog:

   Invalid Server Response - The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the weblog server was invalid:

   Invaild response document returned from XmlRpc server

   You must correct this error before proceeding.

   And from ScribeFire:
   The server returned a malformed response. Please check that your blog and API URLs are correct.

   Thanks for the help.
   ~GR

4. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Any chance this is a WPMU blog? I think there was a release of WPMU that problems with blogger.getUsersBlogs that has since been fixed in recent versions.

5. gcraya16
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I don't think so. I just downloaded it from http://wordpress.org/download/

6. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   What's the URL for this blog? I can at least check if the basic XML-RPC features are working correctly.

7. gcraya16
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   gcraya.com.com/blog

   thanks a lot for your help. I think the only thing I haven't tried is to reinstall the blog. I don't know if that would help any.
   ~GR

8. Joseph Scott
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ahhh, your using the free hosting at GoDaddy. They inject some Javascript with every request, which breaks the XML-RPC format.

9. gcraya16
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   So its GoDaddy's fault. I think I'm too cheap. I'll see what I can do and post my solution.

10. gcraya16
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Ok so what I ended up doing was upgrading my hosting account to put my blog on my ftp server without GoDaddy's ads. Now it all works.

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