Movable Type Inbound Trackbacks not working

[boywaja]

I"m running movable type 3.2. Everything was working fine on the old platform. On the new platforum If I ping a default url for a TrackBack entry, such as this:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/7I get a 404 error (viewed from a browser).

If I change this to:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi?tb_id=7everything works fine and the ping is received.


There is a kb article at sixapart (http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/kb/trackbacks/404_on_trackbac.html)on this subject, but they describe it as an IIS problem. Is there a way to force movable type to use the format that works, mt-tb.cgi?tb_id=7?

I have opened a ticket with support. I'm thinking this may need a server side solution.

[boywaja]

well, support in India checked that they could submit comments to my site and then closed the ticket. That would be fine except the problem is with trackbacks not comments!

[boywaja]

I opened a new ticket explaining to them that a comment was not the same thing as a trackback. what do they do? They left more test comments on my blog. idiots.

[boywaja]

one other bit of info. The domain where I"m running movable type is a pointed domain.

if you call http://www.[]mymaindomain].org/MT/mt-tb.cgi/224 it actually appears to work.

But if you call http://www.[pointeddomain].com/MT/mt-tb.cgi/224 it still genrates a 404.

Seems like this might be related to the .htaccess/subdomain/pointed domain cgi problem mentioned in the announcements forum. I've updated my support ticket with these observations.

[boywaja]

support fixed this issue for me by mapping the pointed domain directory to the folder and commenting out the .htaccess entries I've been using.