tag:forums.movabletype.org,2011://24/tag:forums.movabletype.org,2009://24.15663- 2011-09-01T02:24:11Z Comments for Installing and running MT wizard on a Linux shared hosting account Movable Type 4.292 tag:forums.movabletype.org,2009://24.15663 2009-06-23T05:28:33Z 2009-06-26T13:25:18Z Installing and running MT wizard on a Linux shared hosting account 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... rgrace 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.

]]> tag:forums.movabletype.org,2009://24.15663-comment:25451 Comment from Rob Kenny on 2009-06-23 Rob Kenny 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)

]]> 2009-06-23T09:17:10Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2009://24.15663-comment:25609 Comment from rgrace on 2009-06-24 rgrace 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.

]]> 2009-06-24T22:05:36Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2009://24.15663-comment:25617 Comment from rgrace on 2009-06-24 rgrace Also, the Web root for the shared hosting instance is PUBLIC_HTML/WWW.

]]> 2009-06-24T23:22:22Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2009://24.15663-comment:25707 Comment from Chad Everett on 2009-06-26 Chad Everett 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.

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