Drupal 4.7.x

I am a bit frustrated - if there are 2 things that bother me in Drupal its their poor attempt at a forum module and trackback spam. I get hit with 5-10k a day and I just can't manage the good from the bad. I have had people say they won't link to me anymore because of it.

I have tried access rules on the bad ips - does nothing
i have tried htaccess mods on the ips and words - does nothing

im using 4.7 and am my wits end.

just in typing this message another 103 have come in :(

any help is greatly appreciated.

-- allen

Upgraded from Drupal 4.6.5 to 4.7.6 including all related modules and ran update.php at each stage as recommended

Upgrade has been working fine and went smoothly with exception/problem as follows. After searching I can't find a logical fix but it has to be something simple

Problem 1:
I have a variety of legacy content for *.mov files that are not displaying correctly. *.Mov files were linked as relative URLS (e.g. "files/moviename.mov") and played correctly when clicked. Now they produce a server side error:

"Internal Server Error:The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."

The server is itself is configured to play the movies correctly as confirmed by moving the content outside the Drupal Files directory. The content plays correctly, same as before the upgrade to 4.7.6

Problem 2:
I have a variety of legacy content for *.jpg files that are not displaying correctly related to Inline.Module.

After confirming the inline.module settings are set large (900,900) enough to ensure display on screen for testing purposes and set to "Print img tag and the link to the image". The [inline] page content does not display as a full graphic, but rather as a linked file. The graphics in question are considerably smaller than the 900x900 limit

Attempted Solutions:

Our web host did a complete restore of our site, and things have been bad. I figured out that a symbolic link got turned into an empty directory, so now the site is visible.

Now the problem is that login sessions don't stick. You can log in, but when loading a new page you are logged-out. If you log in on the edit view of a page, this message appears:
"Drupal's temp directory is not writable. The site administrator will need to correct this."

The Admin->Settings page shows that the temp directory as /tmp. It is accessible.

We have just changed to a 2 server setup and I'd like to share the /tmp directory between machines so that images that are uploaded don't get lost. But whenever I try to change the directory from /tmp to /nfs/tmp (which exists and is writable) it gives me an error.

* warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/votewrst:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/votewrst/public_html/includes/file.inc on line 91.
* The directory /usr/tmp does not exist.

Am I going mad or did there used to be a tab that enabled to revert to a previous version of (eg) a page. If so - where is it or how do I turn it on becuase I can't find it anywhere now!

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