trouble entries wont publish

My Entry Does Not Appear to be Publishing

Check to see if any files in this blog are using the publish queue. Design -> Templates should show immediately which templates are using which method of publishing.

If any of your individual entry templates are using the publish queue, make them publish Statically. This will prevent the masking of potential template syntax errors.

Confirm your template archive mappings are set, make sense, and aren't being overwritten by any other templates or blogs.
Look at the blog's Preferences -> Publishing settings to see where the files are building on the server. Check each of the following:
- Blog Site URL - Is this url configured via apache to be accessible on this server?
- Blog Site Path - Does this path exist on the system? Can MT write to it?
- Blog Archive URL + Path - If these values are not set, just refer to the top two. Otherwise, use the same check for the url and path as above.
Do you have any rewrites on the server that would affect how your page is served? Like translating - to _ accidentally and that's why your page is breaking?
Publish an index file in the same directory that your entry is supposed to go into by simply making the index's outfile be something like 2008/01/great_new_entry.html with the body as simple as barebones html with "THIS IS A GREAT NEW ENTRY"
If you're using the Publish Queue...

are you using a cron job to run run-periodic-tasks? Check that.
Use the PublishQueueManager to see what's in your Pub Q (System Overview -> Manage -> Publish Queue)

If the file's extension is php, is PHP allowed on that server? Do any other files use php?

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