Hi,
I sent the instructions located on this page to my web host, and they said I couldn't set up virtual servers this way so that i could run several domains off one Movable Type installation. Is there a workaround, or another method I can use to make this happen?
Thanks in advance.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Something along these lines might work
File System
\user\home\public_html\mt <-- MT cgi files
\user\home\public_html\mt-static <-- MT mt-static file
\user\home\public_html\blog1 <-- directory that is the document root for www.blog1.com\ (your admin interface)
\user\home\public_html\blog2 <-- directory that is the document root for www.blog2.com
\user\home\public_html\blog3 <-- directory that is the document root for www.blog3.com
In mt-config.cgi you have
CGIPath \mt
StaticWebPath \mt-static
In Apache \ CPanel \ Plesk you the create symlinks under each domain so that
www.blog1.com/mt <-- points to \user\home\public_html\mt on server
www.blog1.com/mt-static <-- points to \user\home\public_html\mt-static on server
www.blog2.com/mt <-- points to \user\home\public_html\mt on server
www.blog2.com/mt-static <-- points to \user\home\public_html\mt-static on server
www.blog3.com/mt <-- points to \user\home\public_html\mt on server
www.blog3.com/mt-static <-- points to \user\home\public_html\mt-static on server
Rob, I have a similar setup where I have a host account and two domain. On each domain I have several subdomains where I have a seperate MT site for it. I have a concern as to limitations when running one MT installation where it would all run under one database. Is there a limitation on the DB for MT running all these sites under one DB?
There is absolutely no limitation!
As long as you are not getting tens of thousands of posts, there won't be any problem running multiple weblogs from one central installation (and database).
Mihai, If we have 500 comments per day from 50 posts per day across various blogs is that going to be too much for one central DB?
Not even close to too much. However, if you were getting several thousand comments a day, it might help your web server to either enable fastcgi or make strategic use of the publishing queue.