Having trouble setting up your blog?
We are investigating a number of issues. Some users have reported issues with firewall/proxy settings.
Flock services will not work over proxy currently.
Please report your problem to the Support forum.
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How are line breaks managed by the blog editor?
Any line break is sent to you blog server "as is" - as line breaks. The server is responsible for converting line breaks to HTML formatting. There is an exception for a few services that don't support line breaks conversion; in this case Flock sends fully formatted HTML.
Why don't we just send <p> tags? If we send <p> tags and ask the server to ignore line breaks, for a lot of services, it's going to store the post a big blob of HTML. That would display correctly, but wouldn't be very easy to edit: you have to track where <p> tags start and where they end.
On the other hand, if we send line breaks, the conversion to HTML can be done for display only and the post can be stored in the database with line breaks. That makes it much easier to edit if you need to fix a typo from you blog web interface. The result on the HTML served to the user is the same.
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How Do I Know if my Self-Hosted Blog is Configured Correctly?
These instructions below are only necessary if Flock doesn't automatically configure your blog the first time around.
You can check your blog by following these steps:
1.Look at the HTML source of the front page of your blog
2.Find the line that looks like this:
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://
blog>/xmlrpc.php?rsd"/>
3.Look at the rsd file itself. You will find in each line the attribute apiLink
that points to something like: http:///xmlrpc.php
4.Make sure that file is there, with the correct rights. (that means at least 644, it must be readable by everyone).
For example, with a Wordpress blogs, this file is in the root of your blog. If your blog is http://www.example.com, then you xmlrpc file will usually be http://www.example.com/xmlrpc.php.
OR
If you're using Wordpress, and your blog is at http://mydomain.com, open http://mydomain.com/xmlrpc.php in your browser, and you should see a message like:
“XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only. “
This means that you have found the location of xmlrpc, and you would put http://mydomain.com/ as your blog location(Flock requires xmlrpc to be present and usable for self hosted blogs).
Note: xmlrpc.php is disabled in wordpress 2.6+. To enable it (and be able to use flock to post to this blog), change the setting in here: /wp-admin/options-writing.php (replace with your website.
If you're still having issues after this, then please don't hesitate to contact our Community Support Lead, Jen Anderberg, at jen at flock dot com.
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Problems setting up a Blogger account?
We have found a bug with the way we set up Blogger accounts. Essentially, if your Blogger account does not have an avatar set, Flock cannot configure the account correctly. There are two ways to remedy this
1: Set an avatar for your Blogger account through the Blogger options
2: Open the blog editor and click on the Configure button (the wrench and screwdriver). Then click on the Add Blog button in the resulting dialog and set up your blog that way.
We apologize for the inconvenience this creates, and we will have this fixed in our next incremental release.
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