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I have been unable to submit and receive Trackbacks on my site:
http://www.achesandjoints.com

Note, I seem to receive my fair share of “spam” trackbacks - so they know something that I don’1 😉

When I submit a trackback on the Publish/Edit form, I get the following message:

The following trackback pings were not accepted:
http://arunshanbhag.com/2007/10/02/foot-and-toe-extension/ - Unknown Error

Got some tips from this earlier thread,
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/14044/

Tried the http://www.reedmaniac.com site to submit a trackback.  It did not work and I got the following message:

There was a problem sending your Trackback.
Please check your information and try again.

Also unable to send a trackback from my WordPress site.

What gives? and Thank you for your help.
(Am running EE 1.6.0 Build:  20070627)

Arun, you are on a relatively old version of ExpressionEngine. Can I ask you to upgrade to a recent version and build? I am not just saying this, if you take a look at the changelog, you’ll see that there were quite a few changes and bugfixes to the trackback module since 1.6.0. 1.6.1, in particular “Fixed a bug where trackbacks were no longer being received correctly”, but there were other improvments as well.

If your problems persist, at least we are sure to be talking about the same code base and try to pinpoint it there. Makes sense?

Ok Ingmar

Was worried somebody was going to say that 😊
Will try and upgrade in the next few weeks.
- realize this is a major undertaking for a casual blogger like me.

Thanks
Arun

Thanks. I am afraid this is really the best solution. I am leaving this thread open for now, let us know if you need additonal assistance.

I´am running EE 1.6.3 and have the exact same problem.

Die folgenden Trackback-Pings wurden nicht akzeptiert:
http://netzpolitik.org/2008/datenpannen-bei-einwohnermeldeaemtern/ - Unknown Error

Do I have to modifiy some general settings?
Thanks for any help.

Upgrading to 1.6.4 is highly recommended, though I don’t believe it’s related to this.  In English, the above is basically the same as

The following trackback pings were not accepted:
http://arunshanbhag.com/2007/10/02/foot-and-toe-extension/ - Unknown Error

Right?  Hm- might be an issue with the site you’re pinging.  Do you get the same error if you try it on this ping tester?

Unfortunately I get the same error message.

Trackbacks are allowed under Admin Trackback settings
also the body-field as excerpt was specified.

I get the same error.  Not sure if it’s that site or EE since I never use tbs.  Let me ask the crew if there’s a better way to test.

S.Hartmann, your trackback link is missing the entry_id.

I have trackbacks set up on my SheBlogs site.

Link to test Trackbacks (entry_id of 28)

When I attempt to link to your site, EE has no way of knowing *where* to link to unless you have an entry_id to tie it to.

Make sense?

I still get the error.

Is there a list that describes all the important settings and steps for trackbacks.
Trackback-Modul installed is Version 1.1

Here is what I did:
- enabled Trackbacks in the admin section and also under options at the single posting.
- Placed the Trackback URL (also one with an id) in the Trackback-Textarea
- status for the postion is open
- click on quicksave

Ah- quick save doesn’t send trackbacks.  Docs:

When an entry is Quick Saved, the content is saved to the database, but you will remain on the Publish screen to continue working.  Note:  Pings and Trackbacks are not sent during Quick Saves.

Does it work with the regular submit?

also regular save doesn´t work.

php-Version is 5.2.
Table exp_trackbacks is still empty

You’re sending the tb, not receiving it- correct?  If you don’t get an error message when you send it, it’s up to the site you ping to display it/what have you.  Don’t believe it’s recorded in the trackback table at all.

Are you testing on Sue’s site?

I am sending a TB to Sues Site and still get the error message.

Hm- I just send one to Sue and it went through ok.  I don’t even allow trackbacks on my site, don’t have a single entry page for the test entry I just made, and don’t have a valid tb url in there.  Still took it ok- can see it on Sue’s page.

So…  Looking at the backend, if fsockopen isn’t allowed, should just return rather than give you the error you’re getting.  We can try to force the response to show- if you’re up for a little hacking.  If so- keep a clean copy of system/modules/trackbacks/mcp.trackbacks.php - then edit one around line 286

/** ----------------------------------------
        /**  Did we make a love connection?
        /** ----------------------------------------*/
        
        $response = "";
        
        while(!feof($fp))
            $response .= fgets($fp, 128);
        
        @fclose($fp);
//hacked line below
exit('response code: '.$response);
        
        if ( ! eregi("<error>0</error>", $response))
        {

Not dead sure that will work, but may give us a hint.  And I’m going to bump the crew, because there really isn’t much to sending a tb.  You just put the tb url in the tb field and submit it.  Since Sue’s works fine for me, don’t think the problem is on that end.