Open Source

installing allong side a vbulletin

2008-07-20T13:03:08Z

Hi have a vbulletin forum and i was wondering how i could install this so that my users that register on my forum can sign in on the blog and keep the session continuously switching between posting on the forums and commenting on the blogs.

Much like on this site.

Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1 failing... why?

2008-07-18T21:31:53Z

I am upgrading MT from 4.0 to 4.1 on a Windows box, Perl version 5.10.0, mysql 4.1.22 Below is the output of the upgrade:

* Upgrading database from version 4.0026.
* Upgrading table for Entry records...
* Upgrading table for User records...
* Upgrading table for Permission records...
* Upgrading table for Object Score records...
* Upgrading table for Entry records...
* Upgrading table for Session records...
* Upgrading table for Template records...
* Upgrading table for fileinfo records...
* Creating new template: 'Commenter Notify'.
* Creating new template: 'New Ping'.
* Creating new template: 'Comment throttle'.
* Creating new template: 'Commenter Confirm'.
* Creating new template: 'Password Recovery'.
* Creating new template: 'New Comment'.
* Creating new template: 'Subscribe Verify'.
* Creating new template: 'Mail Footer'.
* Creating new template: 'Entry Notify'.
* Assigning blog template set... (100%)
* Moving OpenID usernames to external_id fields... (100%)
* Adding new feature widget to dashboard... (100%)
* Assigning blog page layout... (100%)

It stalls at "Assigning blog page layout... (100%)" and never completes. Does anyone know what is going on?

Info on disabling and setting global templates

2008-05-30T10:49:17Z

Hello, I'm using Movable Type 4.1 Open Source. I'm setting up a multi-blog site, but I would like that all the blogs looked the same.

Q1. Is there a way to disable all but one style?

I've also created new widgets, like the one that lists all the blogs hosted. But that widget only shows on one blog (the one I modified).

Q2. How can I set the templates so that they are globally modified?

Thank you

Lorenzo

Problem Accepting TypeKey Authenticated Comments

2008-05-30T10:13:15Z

After a few failed attempts to get Movable Type 4.x running on the shared server where I currently have 3.36 and another using Site5, I decided to try a VPS from Slicehost instead where I had a bit more luck. Setting up Apache, MySQL, Perl etc. all went quite smoothly.

I am now running MTOS 4.1 on my Slice, but for the life of me I cannot work out why every time I try to comment on a brand new blog using TypeKey it fails and gives me the submission error message "Name and email address are required".

Anonymous, OpenID and Livejournal all work great, just TypeKey that won't.

Since I was upgrading from 3.36 to 4.1 and wanted to keep my old templates I have been going through and updating some of the code to support 4.1 properly but I kept coming up with the message above.

I set up a brand new blog with no changes to the templates to see if it was anything to do with my old ones, but it happens there too.

I have wasted too many hours now trying to track down what is going wrong, but I really don't know what I should be looking for!

Any ideas?

(Previously posted to ProNet)

Got an error: MT.pm did not return a true value at lib/MT/Bootstrap.pm line 61.

2008-05-12T07:23:00Z

I recently tried to upgrade to the newest version (4.1) of MTOS. Before attempting the upgrade my blog was working fine and I could access the admin and publish pages. After copying the files over I tried to visit my mt.cgi I'm receiving the following error:

Got an error: MT.pm did not return a true value at lib/MT/Bootstrap.pm line 61.

I get the same error if I try to go directly to the mt-upgrade.cgi script as well.

As anyone seen this before?

Thanks in advance for your input.

-Brett

MTOS 4.1 issues: plugin problems and multiple graphics

2008-04-16T15:52:43Z

I recently upgraded from MT 4.01 to MTOS 4.1 and the upgrade went well, though I now have one major and one minor issue.

Part of the reason for the upgrade was to use the MTForum and EntryPost plugins to provide threaded forum features. However, after I installed these plugins, I can no longer get to the admin interface. The mt.cgi URL that worked before is no longer available. Has anyone seen issues with these two plugins? Is there a general list of 4.x plugins that have been obsoleted by MT 4.1? I had problems with plugins after upgrading from MT 3.35 to MT 4.01, and the list of obsoleted plugins helped me enormously.

Second issue is that when I had accessed the admin interface in MT 4.1, on the right-hand side are numerous small graphics representing different functions. There should be only one of each, but 4-6 of each are actually appearing. Does anyone know how to fix this? Does it affect functionality, or is it just a cosmetic issue?

Thanks for any help with the above!

Greg

getting started with MT installation

2008-04-13T01:09:37Z

Hi, Could you please put me through how I can get MTOS installed on my laptop. I had XAMPP installed on my laptop but I don't how to install MTOS on the laptop. I read that to install MTOS I would need an apache and mysql which the xampp combined. Specifically, I want to know what I need do to get the MTOS running on my laptop. Thanks. Abolade.

MTOS 4.1 Templates

2008-04-04T21:08:09Z

I did get the Upgrade process going and my 3.2 MT database was 'upgraded' correctly; but I don't seem to have the default 4.1 templates (as I did when I ran a brandnew install of 4.1, into an empty database). I figure MT used the mt_config table in the DB to 'know' that an update was needed, that is fine, but is it the case that I need to manually change/add my 3.2 Templates? Sorry if this sounds a bit thick, but I didn't see this as part of the 'upgrade' instructions. I used just my 'old' database throughout that process. thanks, (btw I wanted to put my blog file ABOVE the mt file install; as a result, it seems I need to specify the root and archive as full paths, that is okay, but when I create an entry the URL doesn't match the actual path where the .html Entry file is (correctly) placed.

Upgrade path - MT 3.X to MT 4.1

2008-03-31T20:22:09Z

I looked at the documentation for doing an MT 4.0 upgrade (http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/upgrade/) - this documentation seems very simplistic, however I see nothing on how to upgrade to MT 4.1 - I am also not sure I would follow the 4.0 upgrade instructions, insofar as schema differences are not addressed, configuration differences are not addresssed, etc. Is anyone willing to suggest a bare outline of an 'upgrade' process from MT 3.2 to 4.1? There ARE schema differences, just to begin with. I ran the 4.1 'Import' function which happily reported 'all data imported successfully' - which was not true. I can manually insert data from the 3.2 database backup I have, but I would like some assurance that this may actually work. There are for example more templates in 4.1, some of the template_name values don't match (one is lower, the other is uppercase..). Any sort of suggestion would be appreciated. The fact that the software is open source should not mean the upgrade is not supported, right? thanks, L. Evensen

Movable Type 4 comment system, redirecting to typekey.com

2008-03-25T23:22:29Z

I found there's something odd when I comment on the blog I've created. After commenting, I clicked "Sign Out", and the browser redirected me to the url "www.typekey.com" and some strange characters, and then the encoded version of the post link. You know, that %2f things. I thought movable type force me to use typekey service, because to return to the post after signing out, you must visit typekey.com to be redirected back to your post.

I don't like it. I actually expecting comments from registered-user on my system. Although I also like to install another plugins to enable authentications like OpenID, Google, Wordpress OpenID, and two built-ins like livejournal and vox, I think this is annoying. Redirections make people (in this case, my friends registered in the system) who have a slow connection spend time longer, waiting for the browser to open typekey.com, then typekey redirected back to the blog post. I want no redirection, so people who sign out after commenting can return back to the post easily.

Using the findstr in windows (why, no one told me that the command line have so many powers, unlike GUI.) I searched for "typekey" and found it at core.pm. then, I searched "SignOffURL", after I found the line, I deleted the links. [that means, the variable SignOffURL, the global variable for movable type, is empty by now] After conducting this act, I checked mt-comment.cgi that lead me to MT/App/Comments.pm and in that file I searched again "SignOffURL" and in the line that says: SignOffURL . "&return=, " . MT::Util::encodeurl($target), and changed it into SignOffURL . "" . $target, closed all files. Then I tried to comment again, log in using a registered account, give comment, then clicked sign out.

Voila, I've got no redirection. (actually, the browser redirect me directly to the post, instead of redirecting me to typekey, and waiting typekey to redirect me again to the post.)

It succeeded. But I wonder, am I making a mistake by removing this annoying typekey redirection? Is there any error produced by doing this modification? I have no knowledge about this.

Launchd vs crontab

2008-03-11T16:37:22Z

Is anyone using launchd on OS X to run run-periodic-task or any other MT script instead of crontab? I am wondering how you setup your plist.

Comment time wrong?

2008-03-10T07:37:24Z

Hi,

the time zone of my MTOS installation is UTC+1. When posting an entry everything is alright. But comments are getting a time that is UTC+2, so their time is one hour ahead. Unfortunately I don't know how to fix this.

Any help is apreciated.

Thx, Marcus

Error during installation: undefined type: at lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line 1316

2008-03-03T13:37:10Z

I recently built a movable type installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2, with Postgres 8.3.0, and MT 4.1 Open Source.

When I get to the point of database upgrade, I get the error: Error during installation: undefined type: at lib/MT/Upgrade.pm line 1316

how to disable right click and copy ,cut

2008-02-26T22:24:33Z

first i thanks ,

how to disable right clicks and copy images as well titles ,coz some webmasters simply copy images and post ,i want to protect that ,help me how i can do this

Community Solution Coming?

2008-02-10T22:12:54Z

Hello MTOS friends:

Playing around with using MTOS and really enjoying it.

I saw recently that the Movable Type Community Solution is going to be shortly released with a personal license option... will this either: be released as an open source program too, or work with an existing Movable Type Open Source installation?

Thanks for all your efforts!