Movable Type Install - Can't Log In

[musicfrisk]

I can get to the bolded step and it freezes there, any thoughts????? Please help!

 

RUNNING MOVABLE TYPE

Now that you have installed the system, you are ready to start using it.

 

Open your web browser and point it at the URL for mt.cgi on your site. mt.cgi is the main Movable Type application. For example, if your site is http://www.your-site.com/, and you installed the Movable Type application into the /mt directory, you'd type http://www.your-site.com/mt/mt.cgi to access Movable Type.

You should see the Movable Type login prompt. If you do not, check your permissions, and check that you uploaded the CGI scripts using ASCII mode. If neither of these helps, take a look at Troubleshooting.

 

 

Log in with the author name Melody and the password Nelson.

 

The first thing you should do is change your author name and password. To do so, click Edit your profile, then change the author name and password there.

 

The next thing to do is to configure your first weblog. A weblog called First Weblog already exists in the system; this weblog will help to give you a head start in setting up your first weblog in Movable Type. First Weblog comes with some pre-made templates; of course you can edit these templates, or delete them, or do whatever you like with them. But they are a good starting point, and will give you a sense of familiarity with the Movable Type template tags and structure.

To configure the weblog for your own purposes, click on the link to First Weblog under Your existing weblogs, then click on the link to Weblog Config. Change the name of the weblog to whatever you wish to call your weblog, and enter a description.

 

Then, fill in the path and URL information (Local Site Path, Site URL, Local Archive Path, and Archive URL). Values for Local Site Path and Site URL are provided by default, to give you a sense of what the paths should look like; when setting the values of Local Site Path and Local Archive Path, it is best to use absolute paths (paths beginning with a /), rather than relative paths. Note that all four of these fields must be filled in. You should already have created the directories for your weblog (above, in Create your weblog directories). Fill in the local paths (site and archive) with the full paths to those directories. Then enter the appropriate URLs, corresponding to those directories.

 

Edit any other configuration settings for your weblog; when you are done, press SAVE.

 

 

That's it! You're now ready to start posting entries to your weblog, editing templates, and so on.

[TCH-Sales]

Trust me, because this is comming from somebody who has installed MT more times than I ever should have! What you need to do is retrace your steps, go backwards and forwards because you probably missed a step somewhere.

• Make sure you CHMODed everything correctly
  
• Make sure you Uploaded everything correctly (either ASCII or Binary)
  
• Read, read, and re-read!
  

Follow the install guide by exact word to exact word and you shouldn't have a problem. Here's a page off of the TCH Help Site that might do you some good:

 

http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/id76.htm

 

And just remember, if you're feel like you've done everything and you get frustrated enough to slam your head into the wall.. remember, it's a learning experiance!

[musicfrisk]

Thanks I got it now, the directory is CASE sensitive.

 

Now how do I add a template and use this contraption?

[TCH-Sales]

There are several templates on Moveable Type's website. You can also get alot of help off of the Moveable Type boards as well..