I just got finished spending about 15-20 minutes researching a problem with Windows Live Writer (a tool for blogging) only to discover that GoDaddy had changed my nameservers when my domain expired.  C’mon, can’t they at least revert the nameservers back to what they were before it expired?

Anyways, I was trying to set up WLW when I kept getting the following error:

“An error occurs while attempting to connect to your weblog:

Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the weblog server was invalid:

Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server

You must correct this error before proceeding.”

I found a fix here (and here) but neither of them worked.  I then realized that my domain was no longer pointing to my Web host.  So, for all of you Googling for possible ways to fix this WLW error, make sure that everything is cool with your domain/host.

If everything is fine in the domain/host department, you might try these fixes:

1: Grab the xmlrpc.php file from your WordPress install and, after the first “<?php” line, paste the following:

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents("php://input");

2: With your FTP client (I use FileZilla – just make sure hidden files are viewable: View > Show Hidden Files,) grab the .htaccess file from your WordPress install, open it with an HTML editor – NOT NOTEPAD - and add the following code:

<Files xmlrpc.php>SecFilterInheritance Off</Files>

If neither of these work, I guess it’s back to Google for you!

If any of this worked, drop me a line!

- JH