Cannot set custom path for WP

the upstream gnome bug for this is here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167499

A simple workaround is to set the blog type as "self-run other" and the blog protocol as "BloggerAPI".

Acck! Sorry, y'all!! I am new to launchpad, so didn't find this bug when I searched for gnome-blog related bugs. Here is a patch that fixes this issue:

<snip from Bug #53089>
When creating an "account" on gnome-blog and setting the "Blog Type" to "Self-Run Wordpress", gnome-blog appends:

wordpress/xmlrpc.php

to the "Base Blog URL". If you set an alternative directory name for the wordpress installation, ie:

http://my.wordpress.com/other_dirname

You will receive the following error when trying to "Lookup Blogs":

Could not get list of blogs

URL 'http://my.wordpress.com/other_dirnamewordpress/xmlrpc.php' does not seem to be a valid bloggerAPI XML-RPC server. Web server reported: Not Found."

Here is a patch to blogge,r_prefs.py that will fix that problem, by simply removing the "wordpress/xmlrpc.php", and only inserting, "/xmlrpc.php":
--- blogger_prefs.py 2006-07-15 14:39:57.000000000 -0500
+++ blogger_prefs.py.new 2006-07-15 14:41:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
             url_description = _("Base Blog URL:")
         elif blog_type == "custom-wordpress":
             url = None
- url_ending = "wordpress/xmlrpc.php"
+ url_ending = "/xmlrpc.php"
             protocol = "MetaWeblog"
             url_description = _("Base Blog URL:")
         elif blog_type == "blogger.com":
</snip>

I have submitted the above patch to the upstream gnome bug report:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167499

sadly this patch will break existing working setups if people use the preferences dialog because it will automatically re-write url_ending to /xmlrpc.php

so if you do have a /wordpress/xmlrp.php install that is currently working this patch has the potential to break it.

Huw

OK, here is a slightly better patch. It takes any existing url_ending and appends it to the url. This makes it obvious to the user what is going on.

0.9x has been in since Edgy. Does this bug only affect Dapper? The code in 0.9x seems to drop the wordpress/ prefix.