Sitting in relative obscurity since 2007…
Update: Google Analytics tells me that people are coming to my blog for information about installing Subtext on GoDaddy's servers. Because I'm such a wonderful person, I'm adding instructions for how to do this. (7-4-07)
Update 2: Mikeas has posted more detailed instructions on how to modify the Web.config that comes with Subtext, including a couple of things that I had forgotten to mention (like e-mail). You can view his instructions here.
I used to be on dasBlog, but it was difficult to install onto GoDaddy's servers, and the version I was using didn't have support for ASP.NET 2.0 (which is needed for some other development that I want to do), so I switched to SubText.
With any luck, I'll actually get around to posting real content here in the future…
This wasn't originally what I had intended to blog about, but it seems to be why people are coming to my site right now, so here's how I did it. For the sake of completeness, I'm using GoDaddy's Deluxe Windows Hosting for this site, and it runs me about seven bucks a month.
A note about automatic redirecting:
For whatever reason, GoDaddy has elected to not allow you to change the ASP.Net permissions on your root folder, and 404 redirects won't work for visiting http://yourdomain.sometld/. If, like me, your blog is the primary content on your site, and this is the first thing that you'd like visitors to see, you can configure a Default.aspx that will redirect people to http://yourdomain.sometld/blog. Here's what mine looks like:
<%@ Page language="c#" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<html>
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" Content="C#">
<meta name=vs_defaultClientScript content="JavaScript">
<meta name=vs_targetSchema content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
</head>
<body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<% Response.Redirect("http://www.fallingcanbedeadly.com/blog"); %>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Anyway, this is how I have my blog set up, and I would assume that it would work for most users, but I make no guarantees to this effect. Let me know how it turns out for you!