Hi,
I'm new to movable type and I'm having a few issues installing as you can see from the topic.
I followed the installation instructions from your quick start guide and got the 500 internal server error. So, I followed the troubleshooting related to error 500 to no avail.
I was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions as to why this might be occuring.
You can view my installation here: http://www.michaelw.co.uk/cgi-bin/mt./mt.cgi
Many Thanks Michael
Ps. sorry if this is in the wrong forum wasn't sure whether to put it in installation or 4.2 beta.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
It does not look like the installation is still there.
yea i managed to get around that error and i can get to the installation page but,
when i try to "create my first blog" i put my blog url as www.michaelw.co.uk/mt and my publishing path as /var/httpd/htdocs/mt with folder mt chmod 755 and when i press install it says "The path provided below is not writable." any clues?
is my publishing path correct?
you can view it here: http://www.michaelw.co.uk/cgi-bin/MT4/mt.cgi
many thanks
can you post your config (xxxx passwords), at the moment you are trying to load style sheets from http://www.michaelw rather than http://www.michaelw.co.uk
755 is not fully ready-write. For that you would want to do chmod 777.
It's a good idea to leave the majority of your MT dirs set to 755 so that no one can write to your folder in the event of a security hole that lets someone get that close to your MT installation. You can probably think of many bad scenarios that could result from that.
Try publishing to another directory that has been marked with "chmod 777."
500 Internal Server Error on fresh install is due to folder permission. You need to change the folder permission from 777 to 755 and files permission need to be 644 because some time due to SuPhp server 777 permission are not allowed as well as you also need to server logs to rectify the error.