Hi,
I'm just getting started with MT5, to which I try to migrate from a blogspot blog. So far I've imported the blogspot posts, which went fine. I'm trying to setup two blogs, where one is going to be served from the main domain and the second from a sub-domain.
Structure is like:
/mt -> htttp://mt. (configured as CGI-Path and AdminCGI path)
/blog1 -> http://
/blog2 -> http://blog2.
Except a minor problem with the static dir (it does not seem to work, to load CSS files from an URL instead of a relative path) this seems to work fine.
However, I have a major problem, because I'm unable to edit entries. When I edit an entry the editors text field is simply empty. If I save it, the post will be empty, too.
The same holds true for new entries: Creating and saving creates empty entries.
What could be the problem causing this?
Thanks and best Regards,
Patrick
Reported on Movable Type 5
Argh. Sorry. Using HTML tags to add placeholders is not a good idea.
Structure is:
/mt -> http://mt.domain
/blog1 -> http://domain
/blog2 -> http://blog2.doma8in
Oh. I meant:
Structure is like
/mt -> http://mt.domain
/blog1 -> http://domain
/blog2 -> http://blog2.domain
Hi Patrick,
Paste here the CGIPath and StaticWebPath directives from inside your movable type installation mt-config.cgi file.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Hi,
actually I found the solution to the problem tonight and it was related to my static directory on another subdomain.
My basic idea was:
* http://mt.domain.tld for the movable type administration interface. physically located in /mt
* http://static.domain.tld for the mt-static directory. physically located in /mt-static
* http://domain.tld for blog1, physically located in /blog1
* http://tech.domain.tld for blog2, physically located in /tech
The advantage of that would have been that I could have both blogs on different domains, but still sharing a common MT installation, just by pointing the subdomains at the proper directories.
For this I configured
CGIPath -< http://mt.domain.tld
StaticWebPath -< http://static.domain.tld
AFAICT MT would have been okay with this, but browsers not. I figured that the editor in MT is javasript-powered, whereas the javascript lay in the static directory. If they are loaded from a subdomain which is different from the domain, where MT is running, the browser will not allow them to access the document.
I read something about setting document.domain via javascript before the javascripts take action, but that would require changing movable type and I wouldn't know how to do that.
So in the end I switched to a setup where all domains point at the directory root and pages are dispatched via RewriteRules, so that apache internally rewrites request to tech.domain.tld to /tech/. That was quiet tedious, but works now.
Thanks anyway.
Best Regards
Hi Patrick,
You could still have multiple domains use a single movable type installation by setting up symlinks for the /cgi-bin/mt/ and the /mt-static/ folders.
Then inside the mt-config.cgi file you would provide the CGIPath and StaticWebPath using relative URLs.
i.e.
/cgi-bin/mt/
/mt-static/
If you don't know what a symlink is and how to set it up, and if after searching on the web about this you still don't understand the concent, then ask your hosting support to do it for you.
Tell them where the actual 2 folders are (under which domain) and then tell them which other domains you would like to be symlinks of that one.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Hi,
yeah, I thought about the symlink solution as well, but as far as I understood it, my provider does not allow symlinks (at least not in the package I have). Now I have some hints, indicating that this information I got is wrong but for now my setup is running and so I don't plan to change it, at least not for now.
Thanks for your help anyway.
Regards,
Patrick
Hi,
yeah, I thought about the symlink solution as well, but as far as I understood it, my provider does not allow symlinks (at least not in the package I have). Now I have some hints, indicating that this information I got is wrong but for now my setup is running and so I don't plan to change it, at least not for now.
Thanks for your help anyway.
Regards,
Patrick
You're welcome Patrick!
If you plan to consider a better hosting provider, let me know and I would be happy to get you on board.
http://www.pro-it-service.com/en/movabletype_hosting.html