Henbima – Internet Insight

On Jan 27th i visited THC’s blog like i used to do almost everyday. I discovered new tools that could be used to edit a blog content and (possibly) increase bloggers productivity. There is 7 tools reviewed, i downloaded and tried two of them right away.

Windows Live Writer and Qumana are my choice, because beautiful interface i saw in them. I always have a gig on new software, especially freewares so i though this shinny little software might do something good for me

Livewritter got the first honor to be installed. Unfortunately after finishing the installation, the login process didn’t went well. There is problem with the xmlprc file that made me face the “Error 500: Internal Server Error”.

I though it was the Livewritter’s problem, than i found out Qumana installation also gave me the same problem. Then i post some question back in THC’s blog asking about problem i faced.

Solution’s given by Sueblimely in THC’s blog gave me hints how this might be fixed and also a link to MindTweaks website where i might could find sollution for this lil problem. MindTweaks solution’s can be found here

All of three first methods mentioned which are : change my theme to default theme, deactivate all the plugins and even delete any unused spaces found in xml file didn’t help. So i conclude there must be something wrong with the server.
Finally I opened a ticket and continue coresponding via e-mail with THC’s technicall support, below are part of our conversation

Hi, i tried using qumana blog writer today. I found a solution in thc blog, that i have to modify the xmlprc file in my blog folder. I found this error when i try to access the file : Error 500: Internal Server Error.

Good day Hendra,

You are in a shared server and very secured for all of our customers. The number one method hackers gain access to servers in the past two years has been through web-based injection attacks.

The applications which are most vulnerable (not a complete list, but given in order of vulnerability) include Wordpress, Joomla, Mambo, phpBB, and phpNuke.

One of the methods the attackers uses is XML RPC for which the mod_security rule is enabled.
For now, it is not in our plan to change this parameter for all the reasons mentionned above.

Well, honestly i was dissapointed that i could not use these softwares for my blogging activity. I really want to try and experience those blog editor’s capability.

It seems we, THC’s user have to wait a while until the security problem with XML RPC mentioned above solved… When? I don’t know.

How ever, I fully understood that THC,is doing this to protect me, us, their user, from any security problem might happen.

For now, i guess i have to suffice my self with WordPress’s internal editor.

Do you face the same problem? Do you have any other solution or technique that i could probably use? Please leave comments here, help will be much appreciate!!