Find out why xmlrpc.php isn't working on my Wordpress Blog

I was researching this problem in a drupal community forum and it turns out that there is a security module which some hosting providers turn on which blocks execution of anything with the string “xmlrpc” in it!

The real solution is to persuade them to unblock it but the temporary answer is to rename that file to something else and use that as the api endpoint 5 years ago

I haven’t fixed the interface to the Wordpress blog yet, I’ll probably upgrade the whole thing to v2.0 when I get a chance, but at least I’ve managed to get back to the postion where I can blog from Flickr or 43things direct to my blogger blog again, which is useful. And this is proof of it. 6 years ago

The reason why I can’t blog from Flickr, 43things or anywhere else seems to be down to a module called xmlrpc.php which returns an http 500 error.
That just means it’s an internal server error. A confusing complication which may not be related is teh fact that I can’t blog from 43things to blogger at the moment either.

I’ve tried downloading the latest version of Wordpress and uploading the xmlrpc.php from that but it didn’t solve the problem. So I need help to understand and fix it. First place is to set a goal on 43things, next will be to seek out a Wordpress forum. 6 years ago