Movable Type - Where Are My Pages?

[bodsham]

Having reached the limits of my mental ability in getting MT installed and apparently working correctly, I now find that I can't actually publish pages to my sub-domain (which is, I believe, set up correctly). After publishing and clicking view my site al I see is the directory with the cgi.bin and no index file.

If any MT experts here could illuminate this one I would be very grateful. Thanks for all the tips I've pickd up since joining TCH on Saturday - learned more about the web this weekend in years, and my head now hurts.

[TCH-Andy]

Hi Bobsham

 

Welcome to the family

 

Can you provide a link? did you get any errors when installing MT?

[julie]

hi, i just installed movable type today and i'm having similar issues... when i go to my website, i just see the list of files (no index file or anything). i am able to edit entries in movable type, but when i click on "view entry" i get a 404 error. what should my local site path be? the default when i set up my blog was:

 

/home/afterta/public_html/cgi-bin/mt

 

 

is this right, or should it be something else?

[julie]

ok, i got my main site to work... all i did was go to the templates section and rebuilt. now my archives aren't working... any hints?

[LisaJill]

You should not set the paths to output to the cgi-bin. If you want them to output to say, the root of your site, then they shoudl be /home/cpanelname/public_html and the URL would be http://www.******

 

For the archives, you could set it to say /home/cpanelname/public_html/archives, then the URL would be http://www.******/archives.

 

 

note: in the above, replace cpanelname with your username and ****** with your domain. =)

[bodsham]

I went shopping after that initial post and, given the odd way the brain works, thought, in between aisles: you assumed it would just set up the right directories like Windows, idiot.

I was right. I just had to create/direct the right directories. Same with Wordpress which, unless you really want to get your hands dirty, needs to be in the same directory as the index page you produce. And you need to understand that directories work on the /home/mywebsite/public_html/mt kind of format, nothing so simple as an extension of your domain name, and certainly not what you see in your browser window. All of this is doubtless obvious to people around here but for newcomers it will, I hope, be of a little use. Anyway both work now though I'm not using them. I actually run two blogs on TypePad and want to transfer them, if I can manage it, to MT here, where my main website is (which uses some very interesting software called Effective Site Studio - you can see my cack-handed results at www.davidhewson.com, which reflect my abilities, not that of ESS).

For anyone labouring over the TCH instructions I should point out they are out-of-date. You will also need to make the right files executable before you point your browser to them. You need to understand the database set up correctly. And in Wordpress you need to delete some extra carriage spaces at the end of the admin file. Otherwise you just get error messages.

Some of this open source software is amazing but the idea it's 'free' only applies, as someone once said, to people who place no value on their time.

[borfast]

Bodsham, welcome to the family! Thumbs Up

 

And thanks for letting us know how you fixed your problems, I'm sure someone will appreciate it! Thumbs Up Thumbs Up

 

Oh, by the way, the "free" on Open Source Software is not free as in "free beer", it's free as in "Free speech". What this means is that the main purpose of Free Software is that people can do whatever they want with it, modify it to suite their needs, etc. It does not mean you can use it for free, that's just a consequence of the main philosophy

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the family, Bodsham and Julie!

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the Family Bloggers

 

and your new home!

 

We really are like family here.

So if you need anything,

just ask your new family!

We love to help

[bodsham]

Thanks for the friendly welcome... you can guarantee I'll be back the next time I'm stuck.