Tutorial: Installing Movable Type (v2.661) , Pt. 2

Continuation from page one:


 

STEP 14: LOGIN TO MOVABLE TYPE
  • a) point your browser to the mt.cgi file. The URL would be something like http://www.yoursitename.com/mt/mt.cgi. When you do this, you will get a login page. This URL is very important-- this is the page you must use in order to log into and post entries to your blog, so remember it! 

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  • b) Login with the name of Melody and the password of Nelson. 

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STEP 15: CONFIGURE
The first thing you must do is configure your web log to make sure it generates everything properly, so immediately go to manage your web log, then edit web configuration. There are some text fields you must enter telling Movable Type the paths to where your archives and index page to your site are. 
Local Site Path: this is where you will be telling MT where you want the pages of your blog to be generated, so using the mt-check.cgi page again as a guide, would read something like /home/yourusername/public_html.

Site URL: This is the public URL of where your blog will appear. So this would be http://www.yoursitename.com/

Local archive: This is the path to your archives, so it would be: "/home/yourusername/public_html/archives." 

Archive URL: This would be the public URL of where your archives are stored, so it should be http://www.yoursitename.com/archives
 

STEP 16: YOU'RE DONE!
Make a test post to make sure everything is running correctly. If everything installed perfectly the first time you did it, you are one lucky dog. If it didn't install perfectly, do not panic. If this is your first time ever installing a program like this, it will rarely go smoothly. So take a deep breath and go over the steps once again to make sure you didn't skip any-- or just read the troubleshooting section below for details. 
 
TROUBLESHOOTING
Run into problems? Go over the following checklist to make sure you didn't skip any steps. If you still can't figure your problem out, then visit the Movable Type support forum, where there will be many people there to help you out.

Did you remember to:

  1. Double check if your server has Perl and can run cgi scripts?

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  2. Make sure that the path to perl on your server matches the path to perl in all of the cgi scripts?

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  3. Create 3 folders and upload them to the correct directory?

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  4. Properly CHMOD all the cgi files and the db file?

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  5. Add the forward slash at the end of the URL you placed in the CGIPath part of your mt.cgf file?

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  6. Remove the hash (#) symbols in front of StaticWebPath in the mt.cgf file?

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  7. For the StaticWebPath part of your mt.cgf files, place "/mt-static/" as the path?

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  8. Upload the mt.cgf file when you finished editing it?

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  9. Correctly configure your web log in Movable Type itself, including the Local Site Path, the Site URL, etc?

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FINAL NOTES
Keep holy the login page URL, because this is the page you will go to whenever you want to make a post. 

You can change your password and user information by clicking on the hyperlink that reads, "Melody."

This tutorial was designed to install a blog that will be the main content of your site. In other words, when visitors visit http://www.yoursite.com, the first thing they will see is your blog.

If you don't want this-- i.e., you want a blog to be in a separate directory from all of your other site content, you can do this:

  1. Go through steps 1-14

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  2. Log into your FTP client and create a new folder. Name the new folder, "blog" or whatever else you would like.

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  3. Log into Movable Type. Go to edit web configuration. For Local Site Path, the path would be: /home/yourusername/public_html/blog. For Site URL, the URL would be http://www.yoursitename.com/blog.
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