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Installing Movable Type is a Pain In The Ass

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · web development

Whoever says installing MT is simple and easy deserves a thorough beating. You’ll be doing a few extra steps like uploading to two different locations and chmod a few files. Sure, no biggie. But after following all installation and troubleshooting steps exactly all I got were unhelpful descriptionless error messages!

It turns out that the installation guide conveniently forgot to mention three important steps *grumble grumble*:

  1. create a MySQL database and user
  2. rename mt-config.cgi-original to mt-config.cgi, then fill in the settings
  3. insert $ENV{'MT_HOME'} = '/home/userfolder/public_html/cgi-bin/mt'; in the Bootstrap.pm file

If only Wordpress natively supports multi-site management. Oh well.

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