Installing Movable Type on ICDSoft
Nov 01
Posted: under ICDSoft.
Even though I had problems with Movable Type, doesn’t mean that you will.
I modified the instructions a bit below that was provided by ICDSoft, to
make more sense to me; and it might make more sense to you.
You can find screen shots of Movable Type setup here.
http://www.superxm.com/2007/08/movable-type-4-installation-step-by-step-with-screenshots.html
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You need to follow these steps to install Movable Type:
1. Download the installation from the site of the vendor. Movable Type can be obtained from:
http://movabletype.org/
2. Once you have downloaded the archive that contains the installation, you need to upload it into your disk space/hosting site. In ICDSoft, go to your File Manager and create a “mt” folder. Upload all the files here. Then move all the files them all into “mt” directory and Delete the “MT-4.21-en” directory.
I used Dreamweaver to upload my files, but you can use whatever applications with FTP.
A free software suggested was here: http://filezilla-project.org/. But I’m assuming since you already have an account with ICDSoft, you know how to do this part already.
3. You need to create a MySQL database for the Movable Type application. You can do this through your web hosting Control Panel’s MySQL section. Be sure to create the database in MySQL 5 format. Collation is utf8_general_ci.
Create the name for the database which would look like tomjoe_blog or tomjoe_myblog
You will have to create a login/password called a “MySQL subuser” for this database. There will already be a login created, which is the “master” account. That is a default. You also need to create another MySQL subuser for Movable Type to use to log into your database. You don’t want them to use your master account since that’s the same one you use to access you host/website information. Be sure to grant all privileges to the newly created MySQL subuser, by highlighting all the words in the “Privileges” box. (Hold down your CRTL key and select each one if they are not already selected) And after you save it, make sure the ID has all of the permissions as listed below.
Create, Alter SP, Execute SP, Update, Delete, Show View, Lock, Create View, Drop, Create SP, Select, Alter, Insert
4. Go back to File Manager and browse to the directory where the extracted files for Movable Type are located. Copy the file “mt-config.cgi-original” to “mt-config.cgi”. NOTE: Make sure to copy so you will have the original just in case you mess up something.
5. Click the file “mt-config.cgi” through the File Manager.
At the line specifying the “CGIPath” you need to enter the URL (web address) to Movable Type under your account. It should look similar to this:
http://example.com/mt/mt-version/ (Another Way: http://tomjoe.com/mt/)
At the line specifying the “StaticWebPath” you should use the same address as above, just add “mt-static” at the end of the URL. It should look like:
http://example.com/mt/mt-version/mt-static (My ways: http://tomjoe.com/mt/mt-static)
Open the “mt-config.cgi” file to configure your MySQL database settings:
Database: You need to specify the MySQL database you created for your Movable Type application.
DBUser: You need to enter the MySQL username you created at your web hosting Control Panel’s MySQL section for your Movable Type application.
DBPassword: You need to enter the password you assigned to your MySQL user.
You will also need to add the following line under the rest of the MySQL settings:
DBSocket /tmp/mysql5.sock
After that you need to delete the lines until the bottom of the file, which include the “POSTGRESQL”, “SQLITE” and “BERKELEYDB” database settings.
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## Movable Type configuration file ##
## ##
## This file defines system-wide settings for Movable Type ##
## In total, there are over a hundred options, but only those ##
## critical for everyone are listed below. ##
## ##
## Information on all others can be found at: ##
## http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/ ##
################################################################
##################### REQUIRED SETTINGS ########################
################################################################
# The CGIPath is the URL to your Movable Type directory
CGIPath http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/mt/
# The StaticWebPath is the URL to your mt-static directory
# Note: Check the installation documentation to find out
# whether this is required for your environment. If it is not,
# simply remove it or comment out the line by prepending a “#”.
StaticWebPath http://www.example.com/mt-static
#================ DATABASE SETTINGS ==================
# REMOVE all sections below that refer to databases
# other than the one you will be using.
#======== REQUIRED SETTINGS ==========
CGIPath /mt
StaticWebPath /mt/mt-static/
StaticFilePath /home/tomjoe/www/mt/mt-static
TemplatePath /home/tomjoe/www/mt/tmpl
#======== DATABASE SETTINGS ==========
##### MYSQL #####
ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
Database tomjoe_blog
DBUser tomjoeblog
DBPassword suzietime1
DBHost localhost
DBSocket /tmp/mysql5.sock
#======== MAIL =======================
MailTransfer sendmail
SendMailPath /usr/lib/sendmail
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6. Update the permisions of all cgi files (14 files) to be executable.
Go to the “Permission” field, choose “0775″ and select the cgi file.
Do this for each and every file.
7. You need to access in a web browser (Internet Explore or Firefox) the directory in which you uploaded Movable Type (i.e. where you put files located with the “mt” folder
and in address bar type: http://tomjoe.com/mt/). You need to click the “Log in to Movable Type” link. If everything was done correctly, you should see next step of the installation, where you should configure your own settings for Movable Type management.
NOTE: My installation skipped like seven (7) screens for setting up the database.
I still don’t know why. You can see those seven screen-shots here
http://www.superxm.com/2007/08/movable-type-4-installation-step-by-step-with-screenshots.html
It went straight to “Create Your First Blog.” But my Movable Type still seemed to be working…so who knows what happened there…
8. In the “Create Your First Blog” enter basic information about your blog, the name,
Blog URL which is what people will type in the browser to get to your blog, and the
string that will get to your directory of files.
DEFAULT SETTINGS:
Blog Url: http://tomjoe.com/BLOG-NAME/
Publishing path: /home/tomjoe/www/blog/BLOG-NAME
EXAMPLE
Blog Url: http://tomjoe.com
Publishing: /home/tomjoe/www/
EXAMPLE IF PUBLISHING IN ANOTHER DIRECTORY/FOLDER
Blog Url: http://blog.tomjoe.com
Publishing:/home/TOMEJOE/www/blog/
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Important notice: You should monitor the site of the software vendor for any security updates of your installed application.
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THAT’S IT. YOU’RE DONE WITH THE INSTALLATION. SO GO HAVE FUN MAKING YOU BLOG SITE
