digital_distortion Posted February 21, 2004 Posted February 21, 2004 People, I will probably keep coming back a lot of questions at every step. But to star with: I seem to have successfully uploaded the MT full version to my public-html folder. But the install instructions (on TCH) say that i should go the cpanel, select the file and clik on extract and rename the directory as mt on my site. when i clik on extract it says: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract and does not show me any directories. what is that supposed to mean? Quote
digital_distortion Posted February 21, 2004 Author Posted February 21, 2004 oh, i begin to suspect that there is a problem with the file that i uploaded. alright when i downloaded it was saved as a MT-2.661-full-lib.zip it is obviously not saved in the .tar.zg format now does that mean i need to unzip it before uploading ? or do i just change the filename extension ? Quote
TCH-Rick Posted February 21, 2004 Posted February 21, 2004 What server are you on and we can check and be sure that zip/unzip is installed? You can find your server number when you log into Cpanel and see the Welcome to Server## message at the top. Quote
digital_distortion Posted February 21, 2004 Author Posted February 21, 2004 hey rick, thanks for the prompt response. i am on server 56 Quote
TCH-Rick Posted February 21, 2004 Posted February 21, 2004 It is installed on that server. I just checked another account and it was working fine. The message you receive is a normal message but you should still be able to extract the files. PM me your domain and log in information and I will have a look. Quote
Hockeypuck Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 I'm having a different problem in the install process. Movable Type has been extracted, and I edited the mt.cfg according to the instructions on the TCH Help site. I also added the database password into the file the instructions told me to. The next step in the install says to run "mt-check.cgi" from your browser, but when I try to go to the address I set MT up in, it returns this error: Internal Server ErrorThe server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@politicalcow.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.29 Server at www.politicalcow.net Port 80 Any ideas? Quote
Hockeypuck Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 set permissions for all .cgi to 755 Still getting the same error message Quote
TCH-Rick Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 Try it now. The directory was chmodded 777 causing the 500 error. I chmodded it to 755 and the scripts should run now. Quote
Hockeypuck Posted March 2, 2004 Posted March 2, 2004 Try it now. The directory was chmodded 777 causing the 500 error. I chmodded it to 755 and the scripts should run now. I love you. :heart :heart :heart :heart Quote
Hockeypuck Posted March 6, 2004 Posted March 6, 2004 I did get the weblog up and running. I got all of my site's pages into movable type's templates, and the site is working great. I moved the movable type files to the main public_html directory so it would go to the Movable type page right away as the home page. But now, <$MTCGIPath$> (which controls where functions like "search" look for their scripts) is still set to the old directory. Is there any way to change this? I looked up the function on MT's website, and it is set during initial load. I thought of running mt-load.cgi again, but I don't know what it will do to my entries and template set ups. Quote
Hockeypuck Posted March 6, 2004 Posted March 6, 2004 update the CGIPath in your mt.cfg file. I did that, but <$MTCGIPath$> is not reset if you simply rebuild. It is only set during initial load. Quote
charle97 Posted March 6, 2004 Posted March 6, 2004 you need an ending slash for your CGIPath: >CGIPath http://www.politicalcow.net/blog/ Quote
MikeJ Posted March 6, 2004 Posted March 6, 2004 (edited) $MTCGIPath$ *does* change appropriately if you rebuild after changing your mt.cfg. But if your intention was to just to move the blog pages to the root of your site, you only need to change the appropriate entries in your weblog config core setup and rebuild. You didn't need to move your cgi's, you can leave them where they are installed and still accomplish what I think you want to do. Edited March 6, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ Quote
Hockeypuck Posted March 6, 2004 Posted March 6, 2004 AH HA! I had edited the *new* mt.cfg file, but it was still looking at the old. I have the problem resolved now. Thanks for the input! Quote
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