Since Blogger was relaunched, I've noticed that I've been unable to create new blogs. I finally figured it out today. It has to do with archiving. When publishing a new blog, archiving is turned on by default. However, no matter what the setting is on your root directory, it'll give you a funky error, which looks like:
550 2004_05_01_: Permission denied on file:2004_05_01_I think it has to do with not being able to access the 2004/05/ directory, which of course, with a new blog, does not yet exist. I'm not sure why it couldn't just create the directory. A simple hack is to turn off archiving, which I did... that'll allow your blogs to post.
Update
To fix the archiving, after creating your blog, go to Settings then Archiving. Fill out the Archive Path, URL and filename, making sure to create any directories as necessary. Select an Archive Frequency and then Republish. It should work now.
Thanks. You're a lifesaver.
Posted by: Derek at May 17, 2004 9:16 AMI had this issue and I tried what you said... it worked only to reveal a further 550:
550 atom.xml: Permission denied on file:atom.xml
and now i'm stuck again...
;)
d'oh!
Figured it out...
I thought blogger created paths for files based on initial ftp path, but actually you have to enter them individually for site feed and archiving... then it all works just dandy!
Cheers,
Frank
Saved my bacon. Thanks!
Posted by: CelticChristianTunes.com at June 13, 2004 2:38 PMThanks, you just saved me lots of time and frustration. I can't believe this isn't in Blogger's Help system.
Posted by: Louise at July 10, 2004 7:55 PMThanx from me too...this is the only post a goole search reveals about atom.xml error!
Posted by: Antonio at July 20, 2004 9:31 AMI haven't been able to resolve a "server error 500" when the atom.xml file is accessed. The paths in ftp, feed, and archive are all correct. Everything else about the site works except attempts to access the xml file.
Running on Linux Apache with FP server extensions installed and enabled, in case any of that makes a difference...
Posted by: minstrel at July 21, 2004 7:05 AMThank you so much. Same thing was happening to me. Turning archiving off didn't solve it, but filling in the archive details did (archive is switched on monthly by default but does not prompt you to complete the fields!)
Posted by: Ollie at July 30, 2004 2:30 PMI am getting a 550 and cant get into any of my Blogs or to the support area. Found this discussion - but it Did create the required folders on my system ie 2004/10 etc. It suddenly stopped while i was updating the template. Which did not update well - it looks a mess!
Please let me know if this discussion continues...
Thanks.
Posted by: Walter at October 4, 2004 3:33 AMGENIUS ! I spent hours trying to get the blogger to work, and kept getting this unbelievably annoying error message. I was about to give up when I did a google for the error message, and this site came up. Simply turning off archiving did the trick. I'm amazed they didn't bother adding it to the help guide.
10 Beers for you Tim.
Thank you so much Tim.
The problem still exsists and thanks to your post I was able to resolve the issue.
Holy crap... blogger needs to fix this. Thanks for this thread.. I was getting pissed. but the feed/archive stuff fixed it.
Posted by: Bingo at January 23, 2005 2:50 PMSO USEFUL, i was going nuts!
Posted by: Alex O at February 5, 2005 11:59 AMsame here!
boo blogger help section!
Thank you. The Archiving Tab should occur before the Publishing Tab. It is necessary to fill in the Archiving details first.
Posted by: Aaron at May 20, 2005 1:26 PMTim et al - I have spent hours on this problem and had two techos work on it (at great cost I may add). I finally found this site by accident! You are absolute godsends. THANK YOU!
Posted by: Ingrid at June 29, 2005 5:34 AMthx soooo much!
Posted by: Pelenor at August 20, 2005 5:27 AMGood job!
Posted by: Markus at December 11, 2006 11:18 AMGood job!
Posted by: Markus at December 12, 2006 8:09 PMGood job!
Posted by: Markus at December 13, 2006 12:08 AM