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.

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

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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.

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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.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '14 at 11:49

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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.

answered Mar 30 '14 at 11:49

Antoine Griffard

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Thanks. I will test it this week. I did use the URL of the blog, so next I will try using the Metaweblog provider. – Shaun Luttin Mar 31 '14 at 15:57
I tried to configure it manually. It did not work. See edit to my question. – Shaun Luttin Apr 17 '14 at 20:43
Have you tried to append XmlRpc at the end of the url? Like http://www.muddlingthru.com/XmlRpc – Ruslan Jan 29 '15 at 22:59

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '15 at 19:58

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

answered May 03 '15 at 19:58

Rénald

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 12 '17 at 13:57

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 /.

How to connect Live Writer to Orchard CMS

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