API is invalid
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OK I keyboard entered it in instead of cut an paste. Seems to be an issue with cut’n paste I guess.
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I have tried the following:
1) cut and paste API key
2) keyboard enter API key
3) waited a couple of days and tried again
4) my host (aplus.com) is not aware of anything blocking outgoing HTTP requests.But my API key is still not working….
Here’s a stupid guess: since my wordpress.com user name is different from the separately hosted blog user name (admin)…would that make a difference?
I’m out of ideas…
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Honest answer, not sure since I don’t know how the key is generated. I would send in an email to support at this domain and ask them for assistance. This is something that I can’t help with here in the forums.
Good luck,
-drmike -
thejeffcho
I too am hosted with APlus.. and my key does not work either..
Hope someone figures this out..
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I’m wondering what part of what the Moderator said that did you not understand {she asked politely}
“Honest answer, not sure since I don’t know how the key is generated. I would send in an email to support at this domain and ask them for assistance. This is something that I can’t help with here in the forums.
Good luck,
-drmike
Posted: 2006-06-14 20:10:35″BTW If you are web hosted then the web host your paying should be taking care of this business for you over here http://wordpress.org/support.
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Actually Akismet gets handled here as well since this is where they get the keys from.
Best bet though would be to send in a feedback or an email directly to support at this domain since by posting here on a resolved thread from many months ago is just typing words instead of bringing it to the attention of someone who can help you.
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I also get “Your key appears invalid. Double-check it.”
I’ve both cut’n’paste and carefully manually entered.
My host is HostRocket.
And, even with above withstanding, Aksmit has caught 1,591 spam in little more than a month. So go figure.
Not really a problem, just a curious fact. Thought someone here would like to know.
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Your key will be correct.
The error message is because Akismet cannot access the Akismet server. The problem is one of three things:
– either Akismet is being denied access to the internet if you are hosted locally behind a firewall, or
– the server you are on lacks the ‘fopen’ function which Akismet needs or
– your host might need to know that the default-installed SELinux security precautions (on Fedora4) causes this problem. With SELinux disabled, it works.
Talk to your host.
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I have the very same thing. Akismet just stopped working a few hours ago and my key which has worked for months is now supposedly invalid.
Could it be the server is down? I’m hosted at Ipowerweb, and I know of at least one more case at yet another host.
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Same problem here. I’m at the stage of trying to understand the problem, and have read all the above posts. The key has worked fine in the past.
When I saw the link that burnetts posted, I couldn’t get it to work in my browser, which is through my ISP, and is different from the webhost. Unfortunately, I cannot SSH into the webhost account; only access it from CPanel, and trace is only allowed there for email addresses.
Running a trace from my computer:
Trace rest.akismet.com failed, no such host
(note that http: and // have both been snipped so the link isn’t live)I’m thinking that there is some sort of larger DNS issue this morning.
Should anyone be able to do a trace from their PC to rest.akismet.com and should a lookup occur?
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Please read
There IS a dns issue here.
The key might say it is invalid – but it probably still works (mine is doing so on my blog)It is a priority of ours so relax and look forward to the weekend :)
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