I am trying for weeks now and no way to make this work. With MT5 I want to set up two blogs and one "portal site" that aggregates those two blogs. My blogs should both be published to different domains, so that there are:
www.portal.com
www.blog1.com
www.blog2.com
However, once I set up a new blog I am only allowed to name the publishing path blog url to something like
www.portal.com/blog1 or - via subdomain -
blog1.www.portal.com.
Is it just me or is this something MT5 will not allow you to do? I can edit the entire URL of a website, but not that of a blog. According to the schematics at http://www.movabletype.org/2009/09/mt5_beta.html I doubt this will at all work the way I would like it to, am I right?
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I find it very sad to see that there appears to be so little activity in the MT community but at the same time spammer seem to be increasingly creative just to get their links on a forum.
Meanwhile - after hours of researching what is hopefully going to be documented sometime soon, I realized that I needed to have several websites in order to accomplish the multiple URLs.
A "website" should be set up for each domain. Then place a "blog" in each website. The blog can publish to the same root as the "website".
Using MT to publish to multiple domains is not very difficult. I have this set up for three of my domains using MT4 and it shouldn't be too difficult for MT5. I just need to find the time to document this advanced topic. =)
So the solution I was successful with is to use different folders for different domains and use symlinks to mt-static and cgi-bin. Then set up a website for each url/folder combination.
That leaves one logical master site and all the others are using references to the data/functionality/static files on said master. Logging in and commenting also works on the sites, so I assume the executables work fine in this static environment even when referenced.
Bingo! That's the simplest way.
I use Aliases in my Apache config, but both solutions provide the same functionality.