Basically, I'm trying to install MT on my shared Linux hosting account and then transferring my developed MT blog site over.
I can't get the MT install wizard to work with any of the paths I give it.
I don't have access to httpd.conf on my shared hosting account. In fact, I can't really access anything of Apache on my server instance. I've successfully downloaded the MT files, extracted them, FTPd them, and set the correct permissions where they need to be.
I keep getting this error:
Error: 'http://www.lighthousekeeperblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/' could not be found.Please move your static files to the directory first or correct the setting if it is incorrect.
The URL is http://www.lighthousekeeperblog.com/ but I'm not sure what the mapping is, which I think is my main problem. There is a PUBLIC_HTML directory in which all Web files are supposed to be installed. Here are the contents of my home directory /home/rgrace:
rgrace@lighthousekeeperblog.com [~]# ls
./ .bash_history .bashrc .dns .htpasswds/ .mozilla/ .ssh/ www@
../ .bash_logout .contactemail etc/ .lastlogin public_ftp/ tmp/ .zshrc
access-logs@ .bash_profile .cpanel/ .gemrc mail/ public_html/ .trash/
I've CP'd the MT-STATIC directory to within the MT directory in my instance, and no joy. I've tried several different alternative paths.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I can't believe I'm the first person to have this problem.
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
It means that your hosts security configuration is preventing the script from checking file paths.
What you can do is manually create your mt-config.cgi file (there is a template called mt-config.cgi-original in the same directory as mt.cgi)
Thought I might be able to fix it by doing that; the Wizard comes out with this message:
Configuration File Exists
A configuration (mt-config.cgi) file already exists, sign in to Movable Type.
To create a new configuration file using the Wizard, remove the current configuration file and then refresh this page.
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By the way, the actual path from root is: /HOME/RGRACE/PUBLIC_HTML.
I'm still working on this, I'll post again once I have this problem solved.
Also, the Web root for the shared hosting instance is PUBLIC_HTML/WWW.
Hi rgrace -
The wizard is telling you that you (now) have a configuration file, either because you created it or because the wizard created it.
The message you are getting about the mt-static directory is, as mentioned, because your host has it set so that static content cannot be served from the cgi-bin.
What you need to do is move your mt-static directory to your public_html (/home/rgrace/public_html/mt-static), then add that to your config file like so:
StaticWebPath http://www.example.com/mt-static/
StaticFilePath /home/rgrace/public_html/mt-static/
Both the file path and web path are necessary for proper operation - just make sure you change "example" above to the proper domain name.