Hi,
I just installed version 5.0 RC1. All seemed well after the initial installation, but after I tried to switch to a different theme, the theme styling breaks.
I selected the professional template on http://courses.cecily.info/mdia2530/ and as you can see if you visit the link, the style isn't being applied properly. What might be causing this?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
A bit of additional information:
I also receive an error message which states that mt-static could not be found. This happens regardless of where I put it - at the web root directory, outside of the cgi-bin directory, and any other recommended location. If I edit the mt-config.cgi file directly, I can continue with the installation, but if I make changes to my site design after this point, changing the style results in the theme breaking.
I've also noticed that I'm getting 500 server errors when I try to view the CSS files in my browser, but changing permissions on the file, the /support folder, and on the mt-static directory itself doesn't seem to have any effect on the error.
Is my mt-static/support/ directory supposed to be empty?
Can anyone help me with this? I've spent the better part of nine hours on this over the last two days, and I'm incredibly frustrated.
I managed to stumble across a workaround. Instead of using the full path to my /mt-static/ directory in the styles.css file, I removed the full URL path and instead edited styles.css to only use the relative file path.
I'm not sure why this worked, and it's an inelegant solution at best, especially when you consider that the only way I could get MT5 to recognize the /mt-static directory in the first place was to add the full URL under CGIPath and the StaticWebPath.
Well, the solution I tried didn't work for long, so I gave up and installed WordPress MU and BuddyPress instead. I really wanted to use MT for this project because I believe in being platform agnostic, but every time I try to use MT for a project, I end up regretting it.
You're doing production work using beta (therefore necessarily buggy) software, and obviously not reading the docs or missing fundamental steps in it, then you complain about bumps in the road and finish by placing the blame on the product? Not fair at all.
Francois, for you to suggest that I hadn't read the documentation - when I clearly had spent HOURS doing nothing but that in trying to fix my problem - isn't very helpful, and it's the kind of attitude that turns me off using MT in the first place. Rather than lecturing me, why not simply point me to the exact place in the documentation that explains a fix for this problem? And it isn't for lack of trying - I searched for *hours* and found nothing that worked.
Understand that not everyone is a developer (even though I have a fair bit of experience with CMS implementation). Understand that not everyone has the same level of proficiency with Movable Type that you might have. And understand -above all else - that after losing sleep and not being able to find help because the documentation - while prolific - isn't exactly written for intermediate users and/or people who haven't a great deal of experience with Movable Type, that someone *might* just be more than a little bit agitated and and frustrated.
As I said, I want to learn. I want to be platform agnostic. But when I can install a competitor's product in 10 minutes, versus the nine hours of my life that I'll never get back that I spent on MT, the problem isn't *only* with the end user.
Best regards.