isa & blogjet, sittin’ in a tree…
don’t ya just love it when you finally get a chance to dig in & find a solution to an annoying problem?
yours truly etched one of those notches on the old utility belt a few weeks ago, resolving a little scuffle between blogjet & isa 2004 sp2.
here’s the deal…
since setting up our own sweat lodge, black warrior technology has been using small business server 2003 r2, premium edition…thanks to the mothership’s action pack program.
once we finally received our action pack welcome kit, that is…which is another story altogether.
but initially blogjet, the official blogging tool of the funcave, wouldn’t work through isa 2004 sp2. well…technically, blogjet would post the text, but not any images.
as regulars to the funcave already know…
a funcave without images…ain’t no kind of funcave i want to be a part of.
which meant that all blogging ground to a standstill here.
and being as the amount of free time to fully run the issue down was less than zero, the workaround was…
when it was time to post up, yours truly pulled the switcheroo & connected the labtop to the guest wifi connection here at the funcave, which resides outside isa.
yeah, it worked. but losing internal connectivity was an inefficient pain in the patoot…made even more frustrating by the fact that doing stuff like that shouldn’t be necessary.
so, without further ado…
happyfunboy’s super awesome method for making blogjet work through isa 2004 sp2: a play in 2 acts*
act i: allow ftp uploads through isa 2004 sp2
open isa server management on the server console
under the server name (fuzzed here to protect the innocent), click firewall policy. locate, then right-click sbs internet access rule. finally, click configure ftp
clear the read-only checkbox, then click ok
click apply to actually activate the change you just made
now, if you forget to click apply & try to exit the management console, it will give you another shot to apply the change. thoughtful, huh?
either way, the changes will apply…
then prompt you once it’s complete.
intermission
act ii: configure blogjet for isa 2004
like many applications, blogjet not only offers auto-detection of proxy settings, it touts that as the recommended setting.
however, also like many other applications, auto-detection often ends up being neither very auto nor detecting.
fantastic error message, huh?
so here are the super-secret settings for blogjet that re-enabled ftp upload here at the funcave…
under tools->preferences in blogjet, click the connection tab
click the radio button to choose custom configuration
here’s where it gets kind of weird, kiddos.
leave all the custom configuration stuff blank. don’t specify anything in any of the fields. in fact, don’t even put checks in the boxes for http or ftp.
you can…and prolly should…use passive ftp mode unless something in your environment precludes that.
but otherwise, you want to use what i’m calling the phantom config.
click ok…
and voila!
you should now be able to post yourself silly, replete with images that only tangentially refer to what you are posting about.
now, obviously…
all the settings above assume a default installation. if you have added custom access rules to the firewall policy, you might need to make sure that any & perhaps all of them which involve any form of ftp protocol are modified to allow upload as well.
also…
remember that every time you run ceicw, it will reset that read-only checkbox for ftp in the sbs internet access rule. so it’s a good habit to check that first if something suddenly stops working.
enjoy everybody!
and if you frack up your isa installation somehow by following this post…
i know an amazing isa mvp who can help you get it straightened back out again for a nominal fee. heck, she’ll even train you & your employees while she fixes it, if you want to pay a tad extra.
stay frosty, kiddos…
* obviously, we’re also talking about isa when installed as part of sbs 2003 r2 premium. and yeah…that title’s a mouthful to say. still…way less awkward than some of mothership’s product naming. and it includes the words super & awesome. so stick that in your pipe & smoke it!
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