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Welcome to Open All Night.This is a sandbox site for OPML Editor antics. You can download the OPML Editor for Windows or Mac and perform your own antics if you'd like.

OPML Editor: Map A Domain Permanent link to this item in the archive.

How To: Point your domain (example.com) or point your subdomain (directory.example.com) to the OPML community server per the "How to" link, wait for the DNS to propagate. Check.

In the OPML Editor, open your Directory outline opml file by selecting Community > Instant Outliner > Open My Outline . Select Community > Map A Domain. You should see your Outline URL is filled in (note: you can supply any valid url path to an outline). Enter your domain name that you pointed to the OPML server, as above. Select the OK button. Check.

This fails with:

"The server returned error code 4: Can't map an outline to the domain because the domain doesn't point to the server."

But the domain does point to the server. When I access my sub-domain url that is pointing to the opml server IP, it returns:

'Sorry! There was an error: The attribute "allowDirectoryListings" must be true.' ??

Testbed: OPML Editor on Win98. I have tried this at different times over the past few weeks with the same result. Does anyone have this feature working with the OPML Editor in a Windows env? I do see some working directories out there, but I cannot get this to fly.

I see an another opml blog, Per Diem is getting the same error when attempting to Map a Domain recently.

OPML Editor: Blog Rendering Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I posted earlier today about Tom's progress on OPML Editor blog rendering via PHP. Then I remembered issues I had running Dan's Optimal Renderer. Then I re-read "it's based on PHP5's DOM and XSLT support" from Tom's Progress on Blog 2.0 post.

Dan has a PHP test script to determine support on your server. Waaaaahhhhh!. Although my web host provider has a selectable option for PHP4 or PHP5, my sad server returns "You DO NOT have XSLT support". Beyond disappointed. I am writing to my Congressman, better yet, I am writing to my web host.

Update: My web host replied, "At the moment, we do not offer the XSL extension. It has been added to our list of client requested features and may be included in a future service upgrade." Sigh.

Fountains and Mountains of Information Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A decade of Scripting News. On this day, ten years ago, a weblog named Scripting News appeared for the first time ... today (April 1st) its in "retro mode".

I have been reading Scripting News and strolling through DaveNet since 2004. Thanks Dave! Even though you have intimated otherwise, I look forward to the next 10 year celebration. And a personal thanks for the OPML Editor, Uncle Skippy, from a happy member of the peanut gallery.

Since Scripting News is in "retro mode" today (04-01-07), Dave is blogging on twitter for the day.

Tom Morris has it PHP'd Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Hey Tom (Mr. OPML Editor hacky-god), this is very cool, you even covered stuff on my wish-list. Well, I think I luv-ya, virtually. I see you have the Next/Prev, Month, Calendar working for the OPML blog. And even "on this day in". Can't wait for the PHP source ... waiting, tapping fingers, waiting, waiting ... um, no rush ... but hurry up ;)

Update: Not waiting, No XSLT support on my web host. Sigh.

Amyloo is Rambling History Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Amy has been "logging" on the internet in many formats over the years.

I started with BBSs over a 300 baud modem. I was on Usenet and Gopher. I remember sitting with a friend and having the OMG moment when Mosaic first came out. We could not believe it.

Coming from the "Unix" community, many of us had our homepage on Apache/public intranet for links and "Tumblr" like updates, and/or used .plan to let co-workers know where we were, or what we were up to. I did not get on the WWW with a site until 1998.