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Well, before hitting up support, I decided to put the tar file up on the site and just extract it all out there. And of course it worked perfrectly. That's the way to go, very simple. Too much can go wrong in the transfer of files I guess. Even though I know that I was transferring those things correctly. Anyway, hope this helps someone else out in the future.

I'll submit a ticket. I'm sure that the mt-load.cgi worked. I can see all 15 or so tables in my DB out there. I got a success message also. Comparing mt-check.cgi and mt.cgi, in File Manager, File Manager gives me the ability to edit mt-check.cgi. It has the choice "Edit File" or similar. With mt.cgi, I don't get the option to edit. And it looks like: !/usr/bin/perl -w CGIPath http://localhost/MT # Copyright 2001-2003 Six Apart. This code cannot be redistributed without # permission from www.movabletype.org. # # $Id: mt.cgi,v 1.18 2003/02/12 01:05:31 btrott Exp $ use strict; my($MT_DIR); BEGIN { if ($0 =~ m!(.*[/\\])!) { $MT_DIR = $1; } else { $MT_DIR = './'; } unshift @INC, $MT_DIR . 'lib'; unshift @INC, $MT_DIR . 'extlib'; } eval { require MT::App::CMS; my $app = MT::App::CMS->new( Config => $MT_DIR . 'mt.cfg', Directory => $MT_DIR ) or die MT::App::CMS->errstr; local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { $app->trace($_[0]) }; $app->run; }; if ($@) { print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"; print "Got an error: $@"; } In comparison, mt-check.cgi is formatted nicely. (And mt.cgi is formatted correctly sitting on my PC, so it isn't junked before the upload) So, I guess I'm leaning toward mt.cgi not uploading properly. But like I said, I am doing this through command line on my windows machine, setting type to ASC, doing the put, and it comes back saying the file was indeed uploaded in ASC. I also tried through WSFTP. Very, very strange to say the least. I'll submit the ticket.

Ok, it actually might have to do with the upload. Through file manager, if I look at mt-check.cgi, which ran ok, the formatting looks good for that file. Looking at mt.cgi, the formatting sucks, everything is jumbled together. Maybe this is actually the problem, the aschii upload. bruce, how do i put my mt tar file up there and extract? Just upload it, go into file manager, and click on it? Will it give me an option to extract in there? how is that done exactly. thanks for everyone's help by the way.

hmm, i tried uploading the file again through WSFTP in ASCII mode, and I also connected through a cmd prompt, setting the type to ASC, and doing the upload. Still no difference. So, I'm leaning toward maybe that isn't the issue. Permissions still look ok for all cgi files.

you are one lucky girl Lisa. i use WSFTP to do my ftp transfer. i guess i could try some other programs.

I extracted on my machine and then I uploaded. I did the upload in ASCII, but I'll try it again. Everything was in ASCII, except my image folder per the MT instructions. Can I upload the tar file and then extract? Do i do that through File Manager?

Does anyone have experience using MT. I've seen some previous thread dealing with it so assume so. I'm trying to get it configured and running, but like many others I'm hitting the "Internal Server Error 500" when trying to load mt.cgi. Funny thing is I can load mt-check.cgi and that works. mt-load.cgi worked fine as well. Anyone have suggestions? CGI files are all set to 755 I believe. I assume I transferred everything correctly as the mt-check.cgi works. Thanks.