RSS-Spider

Put some time into the spider tonight. It’s been in seriously sad shape for the last 10 or so months. Having a baby really put everything on the back burner. Had several big screw ups in coding which caused everyone signing up for a new account to encounter a 404 page when trying to validate themselves. The link was firing off to my development server which is behind a firewall. Fixed that, fixed a problem with password generation. However, this was nothing compared to the problem I found and fixed just now. About two weeks ago I noticed that the amount of content seemed to have peeked at around 15,000 and that the number of new feeds wasn’t sky rocketing like it had in the past and had also peeked at 62,000. Well winds up somewhere along the line I was testing the spider and FORGOT to pull out the text code… soooooooooooo the content spiders were scanning the same 500 websites.

ugh

Going to Google and searching for anything right now returns “This site may harm your computer.” and trying to click though on anything leads to a page like this… (here I’ve search for GOOGLE on Google)

Here’s the search results page for the term Google… notice every single one of them returns the warning!

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Been setting up a WAMP server on the new Vista laptop for the past couple days and haven’t gotten it quite right yet. My previous laptop had XP and seperate installs of Apache 2.(something) MySql 5 and PHP 5. It took a bit of time to get the system to my liking, but once I found out that I could do virutal hosts on a laptop I was loving it.

Originally the MSI install package from the Apache website would not install no matter what I did. Even tried the MSIEXEC fix I stumbled on and that didn’t work. Google searched and it seemed like everyone was having the same problem but nobody had a good solution. I kept seeing “try WAMP SERVER”. I’d seen XAMMP before and wasn’t all that impressed with it, but hey I need Apache, PHP & MySql on my machine to do my job… so why not. Downloaded it and it installed nicely the first time without out errors or roll back.

The only problem I then ran into is that Virtual Hosts weren’t working at all. Any time I’d ad something like

ServerName spider
DocumentRoot “C:/web/www.rss-spider.com/html”

I’d get an error.

Was having problems installing a very critical piece of software on my new laptop this past weekend. Every time that the installer would get to “Publishing Product Information” the install would fail and start a rollback. Googled the problem a couple times but couldn’t find anything usable. Couple items said to run CMD as the admin then launch the MSI file using “msiexec.exe /i program.msi” and this should fix any problems that might exist with permissions. Well no this didn’t work. Looking at the directions for msiexec.exe I created a log file by rerunning msiexec.exe with the following command..

msiexec.exe /i program.msi /lv* installlog.log

looking in this file once the installer AGAIN FAILED… I found

MSI (c) (24:5C) [17:14:38:971]: Machine policy value ‘DisableRollback’ is 0

DisableRollBack set to 0 (zero)? Ok… so lets set it to one so it won’t roll back and see what happens.

Googled again for how to do this and found this page http://krzanowski.com/zune.html where someone was complaining that they couldn’t install their Zune software… Interesting… I’m sure they’re on a windows box using the MSI installer for a Zune… so three Microsoft products and this guy was having trouble installing… ha…

The key bits on this page are below… but first let me stress that this worked for me… it might not work for you. When ever you edit your registry all sorts of bad things can go wrong including a totally loss of your computer. I do not recommend you try this unless you’re totally sure you know what you’re doing. I will not be held responsible for anyone screwing up their computer. This information is for informational & educational use only. Blah blah blah… Anyhow..

- close all windows.

- click start – run – regedit (for safety if you want , right click on Computer and choose export. save it as a backup)

- expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\ (In my case there was no Installer Directory listed under here) I’ve got a brand new laptop and this was my case too.

-With “Windows” highlighted on left, right-click on Windows and click on New and then Key.

-Type Installer

-Then click on Installer and on the right you should see a key “Default – REG_SZ – (value not set)”.

-Right-click on an empty area below this and choose New and then DWORD.

-Type DisableRollback (one word and it is case-sensitive)

-After that, right-click on DisableRollback and choose Modify.

-Change the numeric value data from 0 to a 1 and to the right, Hexadecimal should have a dot next to it.

- Close regedit

- rerun the install program…

This time my application installed WITHOUT A PROBLEM.

Never did figure out why it didn’t install originally or what the problem was. Such is Vista…