Moveable Type Woes

[jballard]

Is there a Moveable Type discussion area in the Total Choice Family Forums someone might point me to?

 

Here's my problem anyway ... I have a MT installation, sort of working. I think the gist of my problems is from not having proper paths defined in the WebLog config set-up ....

 

If via CPanel in my account my MT installation is at

 

/public_html/blogname/MT

 

What should my local site path (and local archive path) be entered in the Weblog Config? Or should I go with a relative path ... what would that be?

 

If you look at the main index.html file, there are a number of lines using the URL of the location of the blog ... where does this come from (to be used in the index.html code?)

 

What symptoms do I see? I can edit the templates and such from the MT management program ... but when I save and rebuild, nothing changes (and yes, I've cleared the browser cache, etc.)

 

Any MT experts out there?

 

Yes ... I confess to be an absolute novice (translate: moron) in this blog stuff and the world of cgi scripts and such ... but I think I'm one AHA! from getting this thing to work!

 

Thanks!

[TCH-Rick]

In the example you gave the local path would be /home/username/public_html/blogname/MT for the installation. If you want the pages in public_html/blogname leave off the MT at the end.

[jballard]

WOOOOWHOOOO!

OK, the AHA! has ocurred! I think fixing the path part helped, but the real gotcha was the path specified for the output file in the MT management program. I did not have a path specified ...just the default target file ... like index.html for the Main Index. So, after adding the full path ... it's working!

 

Don't know where it was trying to write the files to before ... seems like it would have caused an error ......

 

Thanks for your help!

 

Jeff