How To Fix Wordpress Error “Unable to create directory” and/or “Is its parent directory writable by the server?”.

So I moved a Wordpress blog from a Windows IIS install over to an Apple OS X 10.6 Apache install and ran into a couple of errors when trying to upload images via the Wordpress media manager.  First error was the “Unable to create directory” message and it basically came down to the setting under Miscellaneous config screen had migrated the Windows IIS C:\… path setting.  So by changing that to “wp-content/uploads” resolved the first error message.

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So I was attempting to install Microsoft DPM 2007 on a fresh Windows 2003 R2 X64 Server Machine and everything look like it was working fine until I would get to the actual installation part (after all pre-requisites had been met) and I would prompt me for my Windows install CD and it was trying to find convlog.ex_ and no matter what I did, even pointing it to the convlog.ex_ file it would bomb out with error 810.  What it ended up being was that after the OS install I had added IIS via add/remove programs, windows components and browsed out via a UNC to where I had a Windows 2003 R2 X64 install CD mounted.  So even though IIS installed fine this way, when I ran the DPM install it was looking for the original drive letter that was used for the OS install, in this case Drive Letter D:.  So since I was doing this install remote, I changed my CD drive letter of the physical CD drive from D: to another unused drive letter.  Then using MagicDisc, I mounted an ISO for the Windows 2003 R2 X64 OS CD to Drive letter D:.  I then uninstalled IIS using add/remove programs, once this was uninstalled I re-ran the MS DPM 2007 install this time it automatically installed IIS during the install procedure with out prompting me for my OS install CD.

Leave it to me to find a challenge / bug or whatever you want to call it in the new Adobe InDesign CS3. So I setup a brand new Dell OptiPlex 745, Windows XP SP2, 4 GB Ram, 250 GB HD, Core 2 Duo Processor…you get the picture. The machine was not part of a domain (yet), I installed all the MS Updates and then install Adobe CS3 Design Standard on to the machine. Launched InDesign and it seemed fine, used it to test convert a PageMaker file.

So in prep of setting the computer up at the users desk I joined to the Domain and logged in as the user to setup Outlook, etc. – So I launch InDesign to do some more testing and as it is loading “starting up service registry” it crashes, details show msvcrt.dll as the offender. I went so far as to uninstall and reinstall CS3 which takes a while, with the same results. I log in as the administrator on the computer (the user that originally installed it) and it worked fine. So I downloaded Microsoft’s (Sysinternal’s) RegMon with no real red flags there I downloaded FileMon. As I ran FileMon I noticed right before it started to create the Adobe Dump file that it was going through printer files. So I checked to make sure that I had a printer installed on the machine (some programs don’t like when there is no printer installed on the machine) and found that is was set to our connected copier by default. For ShiGrins I changed the default to the AdobePDF printer and restarted InDesign – Magically it launched without any problems.

I rebooted and tested again and again and it seems to be working now, even after I set the default printer back to the one it was originally.

After installing Exchange 2007 on a brand new Windows 2003 x64 install everything seemed to be going well until OWA would not work. It would not respond or anything. The error below would show up in the event log.

Event ID: 2274
Source: W3SVC-WP

ISAPI Filter ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\bin\stsfltr.dll’ could not be loaded due to a configuration problem. The current configuration only supports loading images built for a AMD64 processor architecture. The data field contains the error number.

After searching and searching and not finding much that specifically addressed this, started digging in more and found that Sharepoint Services 2.0 had been installed on the server. Sharepoint Services 2.0 runs in 32bit emualtion mode and it appears that it was conflicting with OWA running in 64bit.After going into to add/remove programs and removing Sharepoint Services 2.0 immediately after I was able to get a Exchange 2007 OWA login to appear in the browser. Then tested with IE7 and FireFox and was able to login with multiple user accounts.

If you are having trouble sending email to an aol email address here are a few things you may want to try. The specific error that we were receiving was:

Your message has encountered delivery problemsto the following recipient(s):

http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlych.html
554 TRANSACTION FAILED

Sent: (message data)
Received:554-: (RLY:CH) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlych.html554 TRANSACTION FAILED

With AOL there is a lovely report spam button that you can use when you feel that a message you receive is a spam email message. If you get enough complaints then you will start getting these return messages when you send to any of the aol.com domains. The person in question had a virus on their PC an so they were blacklisted by aol. I was surprised to be greeted with absolutely no hold time when I called their postmaster phone number (888)-212-5537. It has been a while since I picked up a phone to contact AOL and I must say the experience was overall a good one. The representative was extremely helpful. The IP address that the client had did not show in their records so the representative provided me with an email address that will return the IP address that AOL is seeing. If you sent an email to ipconfirm@postmaster.aol.com, then you will get a response back with the guilty IP address. You will have to send the email to the ipconfirm address from the computer that the emails are being returned to or through the email server that they are being returned to. The representative at the number was nice enough to go ahead and remove it from their list, but suggested setting up a feeback loop going forward. The feedback loop will kick you an email anytime they get an email you send that one of their members designates as spam. This can be very helpful if you have a mail server and have one party that is sending out spam mail.

More AOL Email Troubleshooting tips can be found at the following URL: http://postmaster.info.aol.com/trouble/

Ran into a problem where a Vista machine joined to our corporate domain would not allow you to logon to Live Messenger. If the same machine was taken outside the office it would connect without problem. SO after searching and searching, upgrading to the Beta 8.1 (Still did not work), found a solution that worked.

Try this:
- Click start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd.exe when it appears under Applications
- Click Run As Administrator
- Type the following: netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
- Press enter
- Restart your computer

To check autotuning is disabled repeat the above but type: netsh int tcp
show global

This worked for me when all other fixes and work-arounds did not.

Hope it helps someone else!

After searching and searching and not having any success with finding a way to enable word wraping when sending an MS CRM 3.0 Workflow generated email, I found a way to make it work!

In workflow manager, edit the event to create an email, in the body of the email use the following code when you want to enable word wrapping to receipts in the html formated email.

<p STYLE=”word-wrap:break-word;WIDTH:100%;left:0″>Insert Text or Insert Slug Here that needs to be word wrapped</p>

This will word wrap the text sent from workflow manager events instead of send a long line of text that a user would have to scroll to the right to read when in Outlook. Works great for me, hope this helps someone else that was frustrated by this as well.