How to connect Live Writer to Orchard CMS

Question

I have followed the instructions found here and here. Also:

• I am using Orchard Orchard v.1.7.0.0
• I am hosting in a Windows Azure Website
• I have setup Remote Blog Publishing and XmlRpc.
• I have tried the all three domain names that point to the website.
• My actual blog name is http://www.muddlingthru.com/we-re-all-just-muddling-thru

Here is an image of my attempt to add the blog.

Windows Live Writer says it "was not able to automatically detect your blog settings." So, I try to do it manually as follows.

Windows Live Writer says, "Invalid Server Response - The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the blog server was invalid."

I have already setup Remote Blog Publishing and XmlRpc as follows.

Is there anything else that I need to do? For instance, when Windows Live Writer asked for the "Remote posting web address for your blog," it has a template like this:

http://<hostname>/<mw-script>

That I fill in like this:

http://www.muddlingthru.com/we-re-all-just-muddling-thru

I suspect I might have the incorrect remote posting web address.

Answer 1

The blog account must be the url of your blog, not of a blog post. It will then detect special metas that indicates the /XmlRpc url that implements MetaWeblog API.

You can also configure it manually choosing Metaweblog provider.

Answer 2

I had the same problem, then I disabled the HTML minifier and it worked...

Answer 3

I just installed OpenLive Writer and tried to connect to my Orchard blog and ran into the same problem.

After playing with it a few minutes, I opened the blog page and simply copied and pasted the URL into the Web Address of Your Blog text box.

Bingo, it worked. Only difference, no ending /.