The past two days have been trying to say the least. At some point Tuesday night, my host - GoDaddy.com - changed some security settings on my account. They claimed that my site had been set up with elevated permissions and that they had "fixed the problem". Unfortunately, those changes broke my blogging application. After sending many emails back and forth with their technical support team, I was unable to get them to even tell me what they did so I could figure out if I could work around it. Their official suggestion? Upgrade to a dedicated server, which would give me full control at only 3 times the price.
Through trial and error, I found the section of code that was causing the problem and in my searching for a solution, I found
another site that had already made similar modifications to the blogging engine to allow it to work under medium trust privileges within .NET 2.0. Working from that codebase, I was able to finally get my site back up. I've spent the rest of today making the configuration tweaks that I had already set up.
Sidetracked for two days.. but still on course.
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