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New Post: Changing pwd in Configuration tab has no effect?

crom84 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:19:27 GMT

Hi all.

We went live with an updated version of our blog (2.3.9074.18820) which is now hosted with a new web host, and everything is working fine, except that I cannot change the default password of the admin account, which I use to submit content.

I can successfully log into our blog, and can also upload new articles, etc...

I asked our host to set the appropriate permissions on the Content, Config and Logs folder, and since I can do everything else alright I assumed that all permissions were fine.

Has anyone else seen this type of behavior?

New Post: Memory Hoard

r_keith_hill — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:07:00 GMT

System.String popping up to the top of the memory footprint pareto isn't too surprising to me either. Still, my w3wp.exe process this morning is sitting a 630 MB of private memory and 825MB of working set. That seems just a tad excessive don't you think? :-)

New Post: Memory Hoard

pretzelfisch — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:32:50 GMT

Dasblog uses xml, and the site caching will all be strings in memory. So i would expect that to represent a large portion of the active memory foot print.

New Post: Dumping a feed into DasBlog

everwill — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:17:38 GMT

Firstly, pardon me because I'm only barely technically literate. But, is it possible to dump an RSS feed into DasBlog thereby generating new articles?

To be specific, my blog is at http://www.condo-alexandria.com/condo-blog

I have automated RSS feeds generated from MLS (real estate data). I'd like to pipe these into my blog with minimal effort. Any ideas?

New Post: Memory Hoard

r_keith_hill — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:22:37 GMT

I have just one web application running on my Win7 x64 system - dasBlog and I'm noticing the w3wp.exe process going up as high as 500 MB of private memory. This seems excessive to me so I created a dump of the process and open it in WinDbg and did a !dumpheap -stat. Here is the bottom end of the output:

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GC Heap Size         0xf0e66f0(252602096)

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000007fef6c03db0    14573       932672 System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexNode
000007ff006aae00    32997      1055904 newtelligence.DasBlog.Util.Html.HtmlFormatter+FormatInfo
000007fee7457628      763      1064840 System.Data.RBTree`1+Node[[System.Int32, mscorlib]][]
000007fef792d008     7125      1140000 System.Reflection.Emit.DynamicILGenerator
000007fef63be268    23796      1332576 System.Xml.XmlElement
000007fef78fc6c0    43274      1384768 System.Reflection.CerArrayList`1[[System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo, mscorlib]]
000007fef63ba9d8    36352      1454080 System.Xml.NameTable+Entry
000007fef792d538    49975      1599200 System.Reflection.Emit.GenericFieldInfo
000007fef63bebf8    40212      1608480 System.Xml.XmlText
000007fef78f7140    43180      1727200 System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo, mscorlib]]
000007fee744fbd8     3936      2015232 System.Data.DataTable
000007fef79067b0     7500      2508528 System.Collections.Hashtable+bucket[]
000007fef7905b78    64933      2597320 System.Collections.ArrayList
000007fee7453b98    32387      3109152 System.Data.DataRow
000007fef7901590   131431      3154344 System.RuntimeTypeHandle
000007fef78fcc38   134626      3231024 System.RuntimeMethodHandle
000007fee7453a80    14104      3272128 System.Data.DataColumn
000007fef792d598     4750      3785040 System.Reflection.Emit.__FixupData[]
000007fef78fcce0    44901      4669704 System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo
000007fee7455500     4361      6018264 System.Data.RBTree`1+Node[[System.Data.DataRow, System.Data]][]
000007fef7900588     8065      9876904 System.Char[]
000007fef7905db0    70811     10903736 System.Int32[]
000007ff006ab130   299070     16747920 newtelligence.DasBlog.Util.Html.Token
000007fef7906cd0    43963     19916800 System.Byte[]
000007fef78f4748   216211     29357976 System.Object[]
0000000001160190      248     36912576      Free
000007fef78fec90   589873     59673104 System.String

That's quite a bit of memory occupied by just strings alone (~58 MB for 589,873 string instances). Anybody else seeing excessive memory consumption in the 2.3.9074.18820 release?

New Post: Search optimization

StanSegers — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:05:23 GMT

Is it possible to alter the search settings of pages, so search engines don't return them for results?

More detailed; I may have a post that would fully satisfy a search result. Search engines (google, bing, yahoo) typically return /CategoryView,category,MyCategory.aspx and/or /default,month,yyyy-mm.aspx. What I want them to do, is return the actual page as in /yyyy/mm/dd/MyPostTitle.aspx or /Permalink,guid,01234567-89AB-CDEF-0123456789AB.aspx

New Post: PolicyException on Windows 7 x64

r_keith_hill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:42:35 GMT

OK, figured out the reason for the exception - since I unzipped the Web Files into that dir, all the DLLs needed to be unblocked. Sigh... Anyway, now I can see the site but can't edit. I know there's something else I need to WRT to ApplicationPoolIdentity:

In IIS 7 the app pools use the applicationpoolidentity. You'll have to give this account the appropriate right.

The way I fixed this before was just choose "Network Service" for the App Pool's identity. But the help text says that using ApplicationPoolIdentity is recommended. Yet I find no account for AppicationPoolIdentity to add to the three dirs - giving it modify perms. What's the right way to do this?

New Post: PolicyException on Windows 7 x64

r_keith_hill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:59:16 GMT

I have copied the latest web files into a c:\inetpub\wwwroot\blog dir, configured the site security and config files, created vdir/app and pointed at my blog folder, given "Network Service" modify perms on content, logs and siteConfig. When I try to access the blog site I get this error at the bottom of the stack trace:

[HttpException (0x80004005): Could not load file or assembly 'DotNetOpenId, Version=2.4.3.8264, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2780ccd10d57b246' or one of its dependencies. Failed to grant minimum permission requests. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131417)]
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.FirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +11301302
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.EnsureFirstRequestInit(HttpContext context) +88
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestNotificationPrivate(IIS7WorkerRequest wr, HttpContext context) +4338644

When creating the vdir/app I stuck with all the default settings. What am I missing? I did this on another x64 system (workgroup though whereas this new machine is on a domain) and I don't remeber the trick I did. Also I think that version was pre-DotNetOpenId. The trick had something to do with the ApplicationPoolIdentity but I don't remember the specifics. BTW the rate at which IIS management is changing is starting to get annoying. Back in XP a web site/app *used* to be simple to configure and manage. Grrr.

New Post: Win 2008 64 bit - DatePicker Question

crom84 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:13 GMT

Outstanding! And thank you for the fast reply, much appreciated!

New Post: Win 2008 64 bit - DatePicker Question

abouch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:54:35 GMT

This is no longer an issue - the DLL for the datepicker was updated and will run on both 32 and 64bit machines.

New Post: Win 2008 64 bit - DatePicker Question

crom84 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:34:23 GMT

I am currently porting our site to a Win 2008 64-bit box, and I have read here that I need a 64-bit version of the DatePicker control.

Can I download the 64-bit version somewhere? If so, do I just copy over this DLL with the 64-bit version on my site?

New Post: DasBlog running as .NET 3.0 app

crom84 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:40:54 GMT

I may be changing to a plan that offers .NET 3.0 and 3.5.

I was just wondering if anyone else is running DasBlog on 3.0? If so, have there been any problems? :)

New Post: What is memory footprint for DasBlog 2.3?

abouch — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:54:55 GMT

I guess I should have mentioned this in my reply above then.... but although they offer a great service (very good data transfer speeds, reliable, and a good control panel) DiscountASP.Net basically only offer 'one flavour' of hosting package - which is how they maintain such a consistent service I guess. The bad news is that they weren't able to change the private memory threshold - and so I had to move to another hosting company (ORCS Web - expensive but excellent). That said I was hosting two blogs and some photos stuff - so hopefully with a single blog you'll be ok. The support at DiscountAsp.Net was also very good - so if you ask them about this issue - they'll tell you what your current usage is. Also keep an eye on the log files for dasBlog - since that will tell you when the application is restarting. If you see it happening more than once a day - you may have a memory usage problem.

W2k8 and IIS7 is a good choice. DiscountASP.Net include the UrlRewriter plugin as welll so you can point more than one domain to your address and then use the IIS7 re-writer to send the request to the correct virtual application directory (I can give you some sample for this if you like).

Hope that helps.

New Post: What is memory footprint for DasBlog 2.3?

crom84 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:36:08 GMT

Thanks :)

Actually, I just signed up with DiscountASP.net ... I wasn't sure if I should go with Win 2003 or Win 2008, I decided to go with the Win 2008 and IIS 7 plan.

How did you overcome the memory limit and the app pool restarting?

New Post: What is memory footprint for DasBlog 2.3?

abouch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:07:48 GMT

It will depend partly on the number of blog entries you have.

I had two relatively small blogs hosted at DiscountASP.net - who offer a great (albeit simple) service - however at one point I was exceeding the application pool's private memory limit of 200MB (set by DiscountASP.Net) and the app domain was restarting regularly. Your hosting company should be able to tell you exactly how much RAM the application pool's worker process (w3wp.exe) is using to host your blog.

In short - yes - dasBlog is a little memory hungry, but I'd be surprised if a single blog even with quite a few entries would use 2GB of private memory.

Hope this help...

New Post: What is memory footprint for DasBlog 2.3?

crom84 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:29:20 GMT

Does anyone know approximately what the memory footprint is for DasBlog 2.3?

I have to switch plans, and our current web host is telling me that because of our blog I need a minimum of 2Gig of RAM on the web server. I find this very hard to believe!

New Post: Posted articles disappear after awhile

crom84 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:21:05 GMT

Well, I posted an article yesterday afternoon and it is still there, the really weird thing is that the last entries in the logs, content and siteconfig folders are dated October 16 (today is the 27th).

How in the world can I see this latest article if the last entry in the content folder is a week and a half ago?? Isn't this where the articles are stored?

I'm baffled.

New Post: HTML tags in comments

nickschweitzer — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:49:37 GMT

It's been a while since I remember this happening to me, but I believe this was caused by a combination of HTML comments being enabled in combination with the Calendar control being present. I think if you disable the calendar control, it might work for you.

New Post: Changing CSS Files has No Effect

crom84 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:28:25 GMT

I am using the "blogxp" theme, DasBlog v 2.3.

I am trying to increase the font size of my hyperlinked blog article title, and changing the "itemTitleStyle" style attribute in the DasBlog.css file is having no effect.

I did tweak the web.config file after making the change to the style (I recall that tweaking the web.config file after making CSS changes was necessary for those changes to be implemented, this used to work in previous versions of DasBlog).

I also changed the "/blog/themes/blogxp/itemTemplate.blogtemplate" file so that the text size is 14px, still to no effect.