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I think I hate MovableType

1st Nov 2005, 14:03:22

By James Stocks

MovableType looks pretty, but it seems hard to install on OS X. I wanted to share one MT installation between several domains, which apparently is not allowed. Here's how I did it.

MT unzipped in: /Library/WebServer/mt

$ cd /Library/WebServer

$ mkdir www.cookgoodfood.com

$ chown -R jamen:www mt www.cookgoodfood.com

$ chmod -R g+w mt www.cookgoodfood.com

$ cp -r mt/mt-static www.cookgoodfood.com

$ chmod -R 755 mt

$ cd /Library/WebServer

$ mkdir blog.stocksy.co.uk

$ chown -R jamen:www mt blog.stocksy.co.uk

$ chmod -R g+w mt blog.stocksy.co.uk

$ cp -r mt/mt-static blog.stocksy.co.uk

$ chmod -R 755 mt

For Apache2

$ sudo vi /usr/local/apache2/httpd.conf

# Host number 1
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.cookgoodfood.com
        DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/www.cookgoodfood.com
        ScriptAlias /cgi/ /Library/WebServer/mt/
<Files mt.cfg>
<Limit GET>
deny from all
</Limit>
</Files>
</VirtualHost>

# Host number 2

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName blog.stocksy.co.uk
        DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/blog.stocksy.co.uk
        ScriptAlias /cgi/ /Library/WebServer/mt/
<Files mt.cfg> 
<Limit GET>
deny from all
</Limit>
</Files>
</VirtualHost>

$ sudo apachectl graceful

Configure the MT installation - have a MySQL database ready.

$ vi /Library/WebServer/mt/mt-config.cgi

Set CGIPath to /cgi/ and StaticWebPath to /mt-static/

http://www.cookgoodfood.com/cgi/mt-check.cgi

http://www.cookgoodfood.com/cgi/mt-config.cgi

Log in to http://www.cookgoodfood.com/cgi/mt.cgi as Melody/Nelson and create the first blog. If it can't rebuild the site, mess around with permissions, wildly flailing the chmod and chown commands until it works. Set the site root of the first blog to to http://www.cookgoodfood.com/ and the CGI root to http://www.cookgoodfood.com/cgi/