Blogs are awesome but BOOM: Error Encountered! The Equivalent of BSOD.

I just noticed currently that my blog wasn't publishing whatever I wrote causing me a whole lot of headache. I finally did manage to figure out the issue being related to invalid permissions at the file system, i.e., the Blog system was unable to write to my DFS filesystem. I seem to have changed some filesystem permissions when trying out the a new php website on scripts.psu.edu. This blog has basically now doesn't let me mess around in my web filespace. However, the solution is simple: Use the SSH client and log into the DFS servers and try and modify the file permissions, which somehow doesn't work. The simplest solution that I found that works (but essentially the most complicated one) was to reset the ACL permissions for

• blog/ directory: If the error was encountered after the blog directory was written onto your DFS.
• www/ directory: Failsafe, resets all file system permissions to default.

Instructions on this can be found here.