Help With Mt Install

[fly.cub]

Hello all,

 

I am new here, just got my account with TCH a couple weeks ago. I decided to join based on value (a lot of perks for a fair price) and the friendliness of the crew that I've witnessed on the forums.

I'm currently working on my MT and Gallery set-ups before I transfer my domain from my old ISP. By the way, I live in Paris, France, and I'm already happy to be with TCH.

 

Anyhow, I've got a problem installing MT (3.15) : the mt-check.cgi gives me an all green lights, but when I try to run mt-load.cgi, it fails with a classic error :

 

Bad ObjectDriver config: Your DataSource directory ('./db') does not exist.

 

In my mt.cfg file I did comment the #DataSource line since I'm supposed to use mySQL.

 

The beginning of my mt.cfg file looks like this :

 

 

 

## Movable Type configuration file [mt.cfg]                    ##

## ##

## This configuration file holds system-wide configuration ##

## settings that apply to *all* of the blogs in your Movable ##

## Type installation. ##

 

# Movable Type uses the CGIPath setting to construct links back to

# CGI scripts; for example, the MT tag <$MTCGIPath$> is substituted

# with the value of the CGIPath setting. You will need to change this

# value when you first install MT; instructions for doing so are in

# the Installation Instructions, in INSTALLING THE MOVABLE TYPE

# APPLICATION CODE, Step 3.

 

CGIPath [color=blue]http://Server-IP/~your-TCH-name/cgi-bin/[/color]

 

 

# The filesystem path to the 'db' directory, where your MT database

# files are stored. You will probably need to change this when you

# first install MT; instructions for doing so are in the Installation

# Instructions, in INSTALLING THE MOVABLE TYPE APPLICATION CODE, Step 8.

# Consider using the MySQL configuration, below.

 

# DataSource ./cgi

 

## The following options are commented out: to uncomment an ##

## option, remove the '#' at the beginning of the line. ##

## First, however, make sure that you understand the purpose ##

## of the configuration setting. ##

#

# Configuration for MySQL databases. Add the name of your database

# and the username that you have for logging in to that database

# below. The password needs to go in the file mt-db-pass.cgi.

#

ObjectDriver DBI::mysql

Database severyn_myDatabaseName

DBUser severyn_DBuserName

# DBHost localhost

#

[code]

 

Can you see something wrong with my settings ?

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Olivier

 

[color=red][size=1][b]Edit: TCH-Bruce removed IP numbers and user name[/b][/size][/color]

Edited April 18, 2005 by TCH-Bruce

[TCH-Rick]

Make sure that you have added the user to the database in your CPanel under the MySQL options. There is a drop down menu to add the user to the database.

[kellybellydotnet]

# Configuration for MySQL databases. Add the name of your database

# and the username that you have for logging in to that database

# below. The password needs to go in the file mt-db-pass.cgi.

#

ObjectDriver DBI::mysql

Database severyn_myDatabaseName

DBUser severyn_DBuserName

# DBHost localhost

#

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't know for certain, but doesn't the line in bold above need to be uncommented?

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums fly.cub

 

And Kelly is correct, uncomment the localhost line.

[TweezerMan]

Welcome to the forums, fly.cub!

 

I suspect that your mt.cgi file was not uploaded to the server in ASCII mode - re-upload mt.cgi to your MT directory, making sure to use ASCII mode, then try mt-load.cgi again.

 

The 'DBHost' setting in mt.cfg does not need to be uncommented - MT by default uses 'localhost' for the 'DBHost' setting when it is not specified.

[TCH-Bruce]

The 'DBHost' setting in mt.cfg does not need to be uncommented - MT by default uses 'localhost' for the 'DBHost' setting when it is not specified.

Thanks for the correction David. I haven't used MT since 2.66

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forums fly.cub

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forums fly.cub

[stevevan]

Welcome to the forums!

[fly.cub]

Thank you all for the help and the welcome !

 

Got it to work : I think it was just a problem with the mySQL configuration (forgot to add the user to the database...).

 

Have a good day.