LisaJill

The OSX download is here but I don't know if there's one for less than OSX. I use mail.app personally and love it. =)

I really think you need to distance yourself from this situation. If the owner of the graphics (your client) wants to follow it up that's up to her. But for your own sanity and liability, I'd stay away from it as it really is out of your hands.

Did you cover this in the legally binding contracting that you and the client signed off on? All aspects should have been covered in that document.

This is going to sound somewhat harsh, so I apologize in advance. It's none of your business. You created the site and banners for her, I guess? She paid you making them her property and her right to use at will. If *she* has problems with the company lifting them it's her place to deal with - not yours. Just my take on it.

You can install any scripts that you want to; as long as they fall within the AUP and are not banned scripts, of course.. I'm not sure about that particular feature in those two forums, though.

I just installed pMachine the other day (I'm one of the support team over there =) ) and had created the database beforehand. It doesn't need to create it for you. I'd make sure that you have the right settings like Don said. It should be fairly straightforward... =)

Happy you got it working. =) I believe you can probably modify google and zonealarm to be on while working with MT, just have to have an exception. But I can't help with either of those programs since I don't use 'em. =) Grats again, now you can start getting frustrated while customizing it.... *grins*

Oh! You also need to make sure that you upload mt.js to your static files directory - or you'll have a multitude of problems =)

Are you running any popup blockers or firewalls? Things like ZoneAlarm, etc? Those will stop it from working. =/

You either need to make a post or hit the "rebuild all" button. =) MT is not a dynamic system (apparentoy 3.1 will have some dynamic stuff but for now it's not) it is static, therefore you need to tell it to write to those static files anytime you make any changes.

You will need to create the "blog" directory, then in my previous example (the one with "private") replace the word private with blog. Where you installed the program files does not matter as MT will putput the static, viewable files wherever you tell it to in weblog config. Does that help?

As a note, if you don't want the blog publically viewable (you want to password protect it) I'd output the files to a subdomain and use "Web Protect" from cpanel to protect it. Then, for weblog config, you'd put this: ocal site path: /home/username/public_html/private/ local site url: http://www.domain.com/private/ local archive path: /home/username/private/archives/ locatel archive url: http://www.domain.com/private/archives/ you woudl then make your own, static html page with whatever you want a link for "enter" that points to www.domain.com/private - and set up a username and password for it. Hope that helps!

Ok, you generally don't want people (normal visitos) to go through the scgi-bin. Only people utilizing the admin interface go there (to login and post, or whatever). Iin weblog config, core setup, you should change the output of the files - you do NOT want html files written to a cgi-bin ever as they will not be readable. You should decide where you want your archives stores (in root? in a subfolder?) and change it there. When i ran MT this is what I had: local site path: /home/username/public_html/ local site url: http://www.domain.com/ local archive path: /home/username/archives/ locatel archive url: http://www.domain.com/archives/ I forget if that trailing slash should be there or not, is the only thing - it should say on that screen. Then, to see your site, you'd send users to the local site url (in this case: www.domain.com) that you set up. Hope that helps!

Donna, mysql programming is a huge step and it would be impossible to teach it to you in a short post here - you would need a script (probably php) that would take the information in a form and write it to the database - and then some way to extract and read that information. Then, possibly a way to utilize that if you wanted to use it as a mailing list. I would suggest that you peruse hotscripts.com for some way of doing this - they have thousands of scripts and installation instructions/demos for most of them. I think going from not knowing how to set up a databaes at all to outright building one from scratch may be a bit of a big jump. Perhaps at least looking at the coding behind already existing scripts could give you a huge head start. At least, that's how I tend to try to learn this stuff. =)

You need to create the database by going to cpanel and mysql databases. The server will be localhost The databasename will be cpanelname_dbname (whatever dbname you chose) Then create a user, choose a name and password The username will end up being cpanelname_username, and password will just be the password. Then, you'll see two drop down boxes - one with dbnames and one with usernames. Choose the two newly created details and then click "Add User to Database" Then you can fill in the settings and all should work. =)

Just as an addendum - if they're going to play the video over and over it'll keep using bandwidth - if they save it then play it locally it'll only use the bandwidth once for the download. So it is ultimately best to have them download it first. =)

Do you already have a script that does that and you just need to create the database? Or are you actually trying to build this from the ground up? Hopefully the former, since by your own acknowledgement this is new to you. =) If the former go to cpanel, in the lower right column click "mysql databases" - Create a database and then create a user. After you have done both you'll see two drop downs to choose the database and user - choose them then click "add user to database". After that the database details will be: Username: cpanelname_usernamename Password: password you chose when creating user Database server: localhost Databasename: cpanelname_dbname Hope that helps. =)

Shouldn't be a problem. =) Make sure they know.

If you have the .sql file (the database backup) and it's too large to import (very possible) then you should ftp the file up and submit a ticket to technical support, stating the name of the file, the name of the database, and where the file is located and ask them to import/restore it. They do it at machine level so timeouts won't be an issue. =)

Do a search on hotscripts.com for shoutboxes - that may be something close to what you want. =) Or tagboards, etc. There are many hosted ones, and local ones. I suggest you go with local ones - the hosted ones, in my experience (all companies) have some serious downtime issues.

They'd need to be able to look at your account to check it. Did you get a confirmation email when you submitted the ticket? Should have come pretty much instantly as the confirmation is just machine generated and has your ticket tracking number in it.

You need to go to cpanel, then mysql databases. If you haven't created a password then you probably did not add a user - so click "add user". Then, you need to use the dropdowns to choose the database and the user, and then click the button "add user to database" - click ok. Then the username and password that it asks for are the mysql username and password you just set up. The username will be in the format cpanelname_username, password will just be the password you created. Does that help?

You get get a more pertinant response by submitting a ticket (Help Desk link at the top of the forums) addressed to Billing. Include the details of the plan you meant to sign up with and the period of time (a month or annually) as well as any other details that might help them. =)

I use the speed test that the firefox webdev extension uses. =)

You need to go into weblog config and change your paths to write the html files to outside of the cgi bin for them to work. =) Let me know if you need more help. Also moving this for organization.