Schlog down! Schlog needs assistance!
All of a sudden, Windows Live Writer was dead. When I tried to post something, I got:
Network Connection Error
Error attempting to connect to weblog at:
http://davidschrag.com/schlog/xmlrpc.phpThe remote server returned an error: (406) Not Acceptable.
I did some research and found this suggestion at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/121259?replies=4:
create an empty text file.
put this in it:
IfModule mod_security.c
SecFilterEngine Off
/IfModule[Ed. note: The first and third lines are supposed to be contained in code brackets, but my HTML coding skills are too rusty to remember how to get the greater than / less than symbols to appear as text in this post rather than being interpreted as code.]
Save the file and upload it to your wp-admin/ directory. Rename it to .htaccess (with the .)
See if that helps.
It didn’t. So I added that code to the end of the .htaccess file in my /public_html/ directory. That did the trick.
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