Topic: Hosting a blog on SME...

[danielrm26]

I am wondering if anyone has tried hosting a blog on SME.  I am running version 5.6 (updated), and I am thinking it might be fun to have a blog on my site, but I am not sure if the layout of SME with respect to MySQL and Apache would prohibit this.

Anyone have any ideas on the matter?

-danielrm26

[Cyrus Bharda]

Just a quick question, what is a blog?

Cyrus Bharda

[danielrm26]

Blogs are arguably the biggest things going on the Internet right now.  They are short for 'weblogs', and are pronounced 'blahgs'. Essentially, they are websites that take the form of journals or diaries, and are updated frequently.  What happens is, everyone running them link to other blogs and so on, creating this giant web.  They are very interesting, and as I said, they are all the rage right now. There are search engines designed to search nothing but blogs in fact, and if I am correct, Google will be making a site that handles them exclusively. If you haven't heard of them before, you will soon.  They are going to be *very* mainstream in the near future, mark my words.

So, that being said, does anyone know if Moveable Type (the most popular blogging software out there) can be installed on SME?

Thanks,

-danielrm26

[Marco]

Greymatter works.
http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/

[Ray Mitchell]

See http://www.dungog.net/sme/howto/weblog.php
Happy blogging !!
Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Terry Brummell]

I had Moveable Type running some time ago.  I just installed it into an ibay and configured it.  I do remember I had trouble with the icons, I think I had to put them in a directory under my primary site to make them work, don't remember off hand now.

Terry

[miracleman]

I have successfulling installed Movable Type on my SME server in an i-bay.

I didn't have much trouble with MT, but ImageMagick can be a hassle. But that is doable as well. ImageMagick is required to resize images with MT. NetPBM is suppose to work as well, but I never got that to work with MT, but had good luck with that for Gallery.

There was an issue with static images. You will not have to put them on your primary, you'll just have to make sure the path is correct in the config file. Oh another thing, you will have to make sure that you do a full install of MT with the libs.

To see the Movable Type blog I have installed go here (be warned, this site does contain language that may be offensive to some):
http://bastard.miracleman.tv

[danielrm26]

Thanks so much for the posts.  Does anyone have a guide on doing Moveable Type on SME?  There was one for the other package, but not MT...

-danielrm26

[Arkman]

There is a how-to somewhere around here for installing MT on SME. check the user contributed how-tos, or the contribs.org site. If you can't find it email me and I'll dig it up for you.

[Paul]

I'm running b2 (www.cafelog.com) on my e-smith box in my primary (www.silwenae.net).  Uses PHP & mySQL and works great.

Though I'm still using the default CSS, need to get off my lazy butt and fix that.  =)

Paul

[miracleman]

The instructions that come with Movable Type are pretty good. Follow those and you will be ok. The only thing that I recall that isn't explained well in the the instructions is the path to "mt-static" which is for the static images.

Here is the path I set of "mt-static" in mt.cfg:
StaticWebPath /mt-static/

As far as ImageMagick goes. Get the latest rpm from http://rpmfind.net/. Install all the required libs as best you can. I believe you will have to force the install. After all, you shouldn't need any of the X stuff. Give it a go.

Perhaps someone can do a proper How-To on installing ImageMagick.

[miracleman]

Ah ha.

Here's how you will install the ImageMagick rpm once you have it downloaded.

I found this in another message:

rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm

This will force the install and skip the errors you might get for missing libs.

[Abe Loveless]

Here are some directions for Moveable Type

http://tech-geeks.org/contrib/achurch/Movable_Type/

GeekLog is pretty easy to setup as well.  Here is an outdated howto for GeekLog: http://www.tech-geeks.org/article.php?story=20020107132615470

I believe the web-based install portion has gone somewhat by the way-side.  Most config settings will be in the config.php files.