Topic: Anyone using Moveable Type or other weblog software

[Greg Brooks]

All,

I'm having zero (nich, nada!) luck getting Moveable Type (www.moveabletype.org) installed. Everything from setting file permissions to getting the app's self-check to run fail on a variety of levels. I'm baffled, since installs of other software have gone relatively trouble free.

Anyone been through this and able to contribute a HOWTO for the idiots among us?

Thanks,
Greg B.

P.S. -- happy to look at other blogging solutions if someone will tell me that Moveable Type won't work on E-smith.

[glenn pettit]

i have had the same issues. i moved to graymatter. it works ok but it nothing like moveable type.

[Greg Brooks]

Glenn, thanks for the tip -- anything odd about a graymatter install (or anything specific to e-smith)? At this point, I have a user/friend who's desperate, and I doubt she'll notice the functionality difference between graymatter and moveable type.

Thanks,
G.

[Maggard]

Radio Userland.

$40, runs on the desktop (lots of flavors), really straightforward to use, trivial to customize, lots-o-plugins, even comes with web-hosting (or you can point it at your own server.). Gets the job done and you out of the loop, just plain happy blogging.

http://radio.userland.com

[guestHH]

Radio UserLand 8.0.8 is available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS X and Macintosh Classic.


??? where linux ?

[Jens H. Kruuse]

I'm not familiar with the other products but I have set up a Geeklog on my own little e-smith server.
My server is at http://www.faithful.dk
The Geeklog homepage is: http://geeklog.sourceforge.org

Cheers,
Jens

[Al Church]

Howdy. I have been using Movable Type for quite a while and Love it. There are a few extra tweeks that are needed for movable type to work. (intalling Perl Modules).

I have a how to for it located at:
http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/achurch/Movable_Type/

give it a whirl.

al

[Abe Loveless]

Since you mentioned it, I believe there is also a GeekLog how-to at http://www.tech-geeks.org

Be sure to read the Comments underneath the articles.  Newer versions and updates usually get posted in the comments.

[steve]

A few days ago I got movable type installed after many hurdles. The only problem I have at the moment is that styles arent working when I view the page in mozilla. IE is okay. If you use the install instructions provided on the movabletype website it will work. Put the static files in your html directory. Everything else should go in cgi-bin unless otherwise specified. I had to chmod 777 a little more than I would have liked to.

[Greg Brooks]

Al (and everyone),

The HOWTO you posted made things a breeze! Install went perfectly and I now have a working (although content-less) blog.

A question: I know Movable Type can handle multiple blogs, but would e-smith prefer multiple installations of MT (each in its own ibay) instead? My config:

* The box is known as mouseland.quadkings.com (this is sort of an administrative domain -- no one ever uses it for anything except DNS entries)

* Various blogs would be on virtual domains.

As I understand it, MT will support multiple blogs all pointed to their own home pages (each home page corresponding to a virtual domain)... but do I need to create separate HTML, DOCS, IMAGES, DB, etc. directories? If so, where?

Sorry for the moron question -- this is what happens when newbies try to learn!

G.

[glenn pettit]

its stright foreword but there are premission to files that you will have to set

[Al Church]

Greg,
I'm glad you got it to work. It's a sweet set of scripts (I think). Your question:

"I know Movable Type can handle multiple blogs, but would e- smith prefer multiple installations of MT (each in its own ibay) instead?"

E-Smith does not need a reinstallation of each Blog. I run two different Blogs. One is set up in its own Ibay (as per the How-To) and the other Blog is in another Ibay. Just make the Ibay; and inside the HTML directory of that ibay, create an archive directory (if you wish) and set the permissions. (Don't worry about setting up any mor DBs or image folders.) Then in the Blog Manager, create a new blog, You'll go to an installation screen that will ask for the paths and web addresses.
To add entries to that second Blog, you will have to go to the original Blog Manager and choose which blog you want to add the entry to. What I like is that you can set up which user sees which Blog. User A doesn't need to know that User B's Blog even exists.

al
(I hope I answered your question)

[Phillerup]

I got MT to run, but no images are displaying.  I followed the how to, any ideas/

[Al Church]

If no images are being displayed, chances are that step IV might now have happened properly. E-Smith won't allow images in the cgi-bin. So the mt.cfg needs to be edited to point to where your pictures are located.

Check the HTML source of the page to see where it is looking for the pictures. If it is looking for pictures in the cgi-bin directory, edit the mt.cfg file. If it is looking in the html http://myserver.com/mt/ web directory, check to make sure the image files got moved there. This is step in III.

[DWells]

I realize this is bringing this thread back from the dead, more or less, but I it does keep the forum tidy. I thought I'd mention that Al's HowTo works with 6.x as well.

I've expanded on his HowTo for use with MovableType 3.15 on 6.x using MySql.

The expanded HowTo can currently be found at ftp://www.delmer.com

[CharlieBrady]

I had to chmod 777 a little more than I would have liked to.

Any chmod 777 is too much. Never needed.

[wellsi]

The expanded HowTo can currently be found at ftp://www.delmer.com

It's always good to see a How To (either new or updated)

To prevent possible problems later you may want to consider what license you are releasing your How To under?

It might be good to consider
GNU Free Documentation License
or

Creative Commons Attribution license

[djhomeless]

You guys might want to check out Drupal (www.drupal.org). A decent blogging tool, with an even better community behind it adding all sorts of useful extensions and functionality.

Not as well-known as Moveable though.

Geoffrey

[icpix]

----I went through Phorum, Xoops, another I forget its name (some number or something) and then adopted GeekLog - for quite a long time. GL wasn't what I *really* wanted, it was very solid but overly techie and the myriads of counting mechanisms weren't of much benefit.
----After a very brief (very brief indeed, akin to love at first sight!) test I have finally(?)/happily settled on my site-wide use of WordPress. Installing it into an iBay is simplicity in itself. Here its main use is a community type of blog I maintain on behalf of my village.
----It would be fair to say I am not a blogger in the true sense but I have adopted blogging technology as my (text) publishing tool of choice. WordPress is entirely PHP/MySQL (no HTML) and Open Source.
----Robert

[artful]

You guys might want to check out Drupal (www.drupal.org). A decent blogging tool, with an even better community behind it adding all sorts of useful extensions and functionality.

Not as well-known as Moveable though.

Geoffrey

is there a 'HOW TO' for the installation of drupal?