manstraw

I mentioned NIS, only because it’s defaults mess with quite a few things. It could also be another firewall, outside of your computer. If it’s in a tight environment, then I assume it’s beyond your power to make changes to the firewall.

Perhaps you could try someone else’s computer in the same environment. If you have the problem elsewhere, that speaks to the firewall issue.

Do you have NIS (Norton Internet Security). Anyway, it’s a firewall, and as one, it can strip out referers and other bits from your communication. If you have, try temporarily turning it off to see if it then works.

Also, you can have more than one cookie. domain.com and http://www.domain.com for example. You could also try deleting all cookies to be sure you go them all.

I’m a little stumped here.

I sort of agree with you Cyber, the teach to fish thing that is. When I offer advice here, I purposely avoid offering cut and paste solutions. I try to get the person to understand the problem better, so they can come up with the solution themselves as much as possible.

If you can’t handle installing wordpress, I personally recommend wordpress.com or similar such services. But having said that, time will tell if this offer is ultimately useful to some people. If it sets them up to fail in the future, that will become apparent. If it gets them going, so they can then take more time to learn the rest, that will show itself too. I hope it’s successful though. At worst, it’s an interesting experiment. At best, it turns out to be darn helpful!

You want the Category Access plugin. You can decide which categories (or all of them if you wish) are available to guests. And there is a second level of settings for subscribers. Above subscribers, everyone gets to read, unless you override settings under their specific user account. (at least, that’s how it works if I remember correctly).

Are you good with php? Write a short script that creates a folder. Then go in and look at who the owner is of that folder. That should tell you which user php is running as despite what configs indicate. http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php

Find out if you’re in a chroot’d environment. Ask them, but also, log into your shell and see if you can see other people’s user spaces.

phpsuexec is just one piece of a security puzzle. I wouldn’t worry too much about it all by itself. Is your account in a chrooted environment?

I would also try 775 for permissions. see if that works.

Also, what control panel do you have? That might tell us more about your environment. CPanel for example is less secure than Ensim. But don’t get that hung up about that either.

When people hack sites, it’s not just because somebody left a folder with write permissions on their server. There are many factors.

have you been trying different admin themes?

Other plugins are capable to disabling the built in upload function. One example is PhotoPress, which will disable the upload if that option is enabled. If you’ve installed new plugins, I would first try disabling it(them) to see if it’s the problem.

Sorry I wasn’t much help there. I’ve never imported rdf, but thought there were utilities to convert the format. I’ve read about them a few times, but it seems the majority that google just gave me were for convert from rss to rdf and not so much the other way around.

How many blog entries are you talking about? Dozens? Or Thousands? It might be possible to manually convert the file format to one that the rss importer will read. Perhaps all that’s need is some changes to header bits. Would it be possible for you to post a sample .rdf file that I could experiment with?