FreshClicks » Syndicated Content and RSS http://www.freshclicks.net Marketing and Web Analytics Strategies Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:40:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mosso – How to fix comment IP addresses in WordPress 2.7 http://www.freshclicks.net/syndicated-content-and-rss/mosso-how-to-fix-comment-ip-addresses-in-wordpress-27/ http://www.freshclicks.net/syndicated-content-and-rss/mosso-how-to-fix-comment-ip-addresses-in-wordpress-27/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:18:48 +0000 Lary Stucker http://www.freshclicks.net/?p=269 wordpress 2.7 mossoI enjoy using Mosso servers to host my marketing blog and many other client sites. I started using their “hosting cloud” technology shortly after they launched and with only a few hiccups in the beginning, they have performed amazingly well.¬† Since Mosso is on a cluster (Cloud server) I do occasionally run into problems. One of which I documented regarding how Mosso messes up up the comment IP address in WordPress 2.6. Well I updated my blog to WordPress 2.7, which is great but that IP address problem came back. The old solution didn’t work so I did some digging around and this is what I found.

Problem

Comments come into my blog and they all show that the IP address of the sender is the same. The WordPress application was seeing the IP address of the load balancing technology and not the IP address of the person adding the comment. This happens because Mosso’s load balancing technology sits in front of the web servers.

The new solution

Having tried to implement my old solution I discovered that enough had changed in WordPress 2.7 that my hack no longer worked. Instead I had to change one simple line of code in the wp/include/comment.php directory.

In file wp-includes/comment.php around line 971 change:

$_SERVER['HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP'] );

into this:

,$_SERVER['HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP'] );

That’s it! All of the comments will once again record the appropriate IP address associated with the person making the comment and I can start black listing those spam comment at the IP address level. Or catch companies trying to pretend to be their own customers praising their products — You know who you are!

If you find this article helpful make sure to add a comment and let me know!

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I use Mosso to host all of my web hosting accounts. They may be more expensive then other hosted servers but Mosso scales automatically (they call it their “hosting cloud”) and will keep your site up and running when you get hit by the unexpected spike in traffic do to some stumble-upon or other viral phenomenon.

The Problem

I ran into a problem with my installation of WordPress 2.6. I had a couple of comments come into my blog and I noticed something strange. They had the same IP address. Was someone pretending to be two different people and commenting on my article? For shame! Actually, on closer inspection I noticed that the IP address for ALL of the comments were the same, even my own replies. It turns out that the WordPress application was seeing the IP address of the load balancers and not the IP address of the person adding the comment. This happens because Mosso’s load balancers sit in front of their webservers.

The Solution

Luckily the solution was easy. I just located the comment.php file in the directory of my active theme.
wp-content/themes/[name of theme]/comment.php

Then just searched for:

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

and replaced it with:

$_SERVER['HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP'];

That’s it! All of the comments now have the appropriate IP address associated with them and I can start black listing that spam comment at the IP address level!

If you find this article helpful make sure to add a comment and let me know!

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As an example this blog has an RSS Feed that is syndicated by FeedBurner, you can subscribe to it via RSS or email. I also have a Design and Development website, www.HolsumStudios.com that is powered by a Joomla CMS. Wanting to give visitors to Holsum Studios the opportunity to view these articles and take part in the blog I developed a Joomla Module for FeedBurner’s BuzzBlast.

BuzzBoost republishes your burned feed’s content as go-anywhere HTML. Want to promote your blog on a Joomla site you manage? The FeedBurner BuzzBoost module allows you to easily publish your blog articles on your Joomla site.

You must have a FeedBurner feed and you have to enable BussBoost from the Publicize section of your Feeds Feedburner account.

You can download the module for free here: feedburner buzzboost module

I released the software late Sunday night (2 days ago) and it has been downloaded over 500 times. If you download the module and are using it, let me know by posting a comment below.

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