James Fishwick

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On the Cloud

Networking

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Yes, now running a Bitnami WordPress package on an Amazon EC2 instance. Still tweaking, but very cool stuff so far!

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Committing to WordPress svn via proxy

Networking, Note to Self, WordPress

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Multiple times when I was recently updating my svn repository for my Jetpack Easy Playlists plugin, I wasunable to connect to the WordPress SVN repository and execute basic svn commands. Kept getting warnings that looked like this:

svn: warning: Error handling externals definition for XXXX
svn: warning: PROPFIND of '/!svn/XXXX/default': could not connect to server (http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org)

Strangely, I was able to browse the repository via my browser, as well as checkout other public svns. I’m not behind a proxy, with a normal COMCAST connection.

What gives and how did I get around it?

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