Simple Guides To Install MovableType 3.0
Run MT for the first time!
- Point browser to http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com/mt/mt.cgi. Username is Melody, Password is Nelson.
- Now we change the default login to our own. Click Edit your profile(right side bar, under “SHORTCUTS”). Make your changes, “Remote Authentication” can be ignored.
- Time to modify the default weblog. Click “First Weblog“, at the left side bar, click “WEBLOG CONFIG“(under “Manage”).
- In “Core Setup“, change “Weblog Name:” to anything you like.
- Change “Local Site Path:” to /home/YOUR_DOMAIN/public_html/(removed “mt” at the end, because we want the blog at our domain’s root)
- Change “Local Archive Path:” to /home/scream/public_html/archives(this is the “archives” directory we created in preparation.)
- After done changes, click “Save Change” button, and click “Rebuild my site” after settings saved.
- A new window will open, click “Rebuild” button to build your weblog.
- Installation completed. View your weblog at http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com. :cool:
Wait! We haven’t restore our backup!
Import MT backup to new MT:
- At right side bar, click “IMPORT/EXPORT“(under “Utilities”).
- Tick “Import entries as me“, don’t need bother other settings.
- Click “Import Entries“, entries will start importing…
- Back to previous page after it is done, rebuild the weblog again.
Note: Remember to delete the backup file in the “import” directory to avoid duplicated import next time.
PHEW~ We are done!
Take a look at the first MT3.0 I have installed? :cool:
Thought:
I think I used to WordPress’s 5 minutes intallation already… The installation of MT took longer time and more steps. After wrote this post, I found that it is not that “simple”. Hopefully this will helps you to install MovableType(if you understand what I wrote :P ).
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Updated (9 Nov 2004): Added note to FTP upload filetype. Thanks to Sashi.
Know what I did? ^^ I just downloaded the .tar.gz, ssh into my server, uncompressed the files and configure mt.cfg and it’s done! ^^v
noorhidayat: you know what, your MT blog’s comment does NOT work!
Having shell access make the installation much faster(don’t need upload) but u still have to do the MT settings wut~ :P
thank u :) u helped me a great deal. MT 3.0 seems to be much better than older version. hopefully no more database problem again.. :wink:
Hmm…do you think you could help me with installing MT 3.0? Plzzzz…?
Menj: If you have any problem, I may help but I charge for installation work. :)
:evil: Huh, you want to charge me :shock: Aiyo…..plz help la….I no moola to pay you, you know :(
– MENJ
Menj: business is business. I can help you when you have installation problem. but i can’t do free installation for you. hx is my old old friends, that’s another story.
Hmm….in that case, I suppose I have no choice :twisted: Pls email me so that we can discuss this further :D:mrgreen:
– MENJ
sure :)
Installation seems successful, but I can’t view my entries! Where on earth did i go wrong?:cry:
whoopee~! no worries, managed to solve it by changing the MTentries = n…
Good. :smile:
I’m having probs again…:sad: Can’t view my new entries, eventhough i’ve amended my new lastn=”n”, coz it doesn’t recognise non numeric values, wonder why it worked yesterday… You can’t view the new entries at the root site (www.cozylounge.net), but at the ‘index.html’ (www.cozylounge.net/index.html). Logically speaking, isn’t it supposed to be the same???
I went to your site, both http://www.cozylounge.net and http://www.cozylounge.net/index.html are same.
Hi dude, just wanted to add something. A friend of mine was installing MT 3.11, and since I was too busy to help, I directed him to your site. He did everything you wrote, but still had some problems. I was only recently able to look at his files, and discovered that he had uploaded everything into his server as binary files (it was the default setting for his FTP client). I’ve now fixed his problems by simply FTPing all the files (except for images folder) as ASCII. Apparently, it’s a common problem when people are installing MT (from seeing the MT support forums).
I just thought you might want to add a line to your directions about this. Cheers! :smile:
i downloaded mt 3.34
mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi are not in the folder..
i assumed those were combined into mt-config.cgi?
after installed and run the mt-check.cgi.. no errors..
but mt-load.cgi is not in the folder.. how do i initialise my mt?
thanks!