But when I try to Manage Assets on the second blog or in the system overview, I get an Internal Server error. When I was creating this blog, I uploaded some images via an FTP program and not through the MT control panel (not for any particular reason, just force of habit). So I have images that are referenced in both Templates and Pages that were not uploaded through the Asset Manager. Would this be causing the problem? Is there any way to reset this info and start fresh???
Thanks in advance!!
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I don't know where to start to even start trouble shooting this. Any suggestions provided would be much appreciated.
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]]>I pointed out on two separate posts, here and here, that Community Pack (CP) and Professional Pack (PP) appear to collide. I have confirmed this now. The reason the error didn't show up till Release Candidate 4 was that, till that time, the CP was not bundled with the MT package. This bundling happened, as far as I know, for the first time with the release of MTPro 4.2, final release (not sure if RC5 had it or not).
What I have here is an incredibly clumsy, scorched-earth workaround. It's impossible to call this a "solution" in any sense of the word. But this is an error with MTPro, as shipped, not some plugin and needs to be corrected ASAP. I have already put in a word with support and also over at pronet. Hopefully, somebody will sort it out. Till then, this.
The problem
If both PP and CP are installed, then at least one type of Custom Field from the PP returns an error.
I found it with the date custom field; it may possibly arise in other fields too.
It seems you cannot, if CP installed, set a custom date field to only date or only time (assuming of course that the exact time down to the last second is of any conceivable importance to anyone). Whatever you do, it reverts to a date and time setting. If you use such a custom field, you are then forced into setting both date and time.
For many of us, it's only the date that's important and we don't really care whether a post is at 11:02:03 or at 15:01:02. So we need a Custom Field that only demands the date, and not the time as well.
I haven't checked with other fields and, frankly, I don't think I'm going to bother.
Burn the Community Pack if you want the Professional Pack
Yes, that's pretty extreme, and it is a scorched earth kind of solution, but so far I have found no other, and am still waiting on support.
Thing to do is this: download the MT 4.2 Pro tarball or zip file; unpack it on your local drive. Delete the entire Community Pack folder. That's at
MT-4.21-en\addons\Community.pack
Repack the entire folder without the Community Pack, upload to your server and unpack it there. Then go through the regular install. MT4.2Pro loads perfectly without the Community Pack and its various bells and whistles (additional template sets, dashboard widgets, yada yada). Big deal.
Professional Pack now works perfectly, and at the foot of the screen it tells you that you're using
Movable Type Pro version 4.21-en with: Professional Pack 1.
Basically, you're now in a Sophie's Choice situation: PP or CP, but not both.
As to this workaround: Ham-handed, sure. Using a hammer to kill an ant, certainly. But it works. Unlike, sorry to say, the shipped product.
Points to Note aka Caveats
PS: Why is there no preview button when starting a topic on these forums? It's there for replies!
]]>First the good news: rebuilds are about 400% faster. A full rebuild of our largest blog has gone from over 50 minutes to around 14.
Now the bad news: interactive processes are about 400% slower. For example, the delay between clicking New Entry (or Write entry) and the Create Entry screen appearing, has gone from about 2 seconds to 8 or more, and other interactive process are equally tardy by comparison with 3.17.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions where I might try to find some improvements in the interactive processes. One thing that I plan on trying is an unload / delete / reload of the database tables, on the basis that the upgrade process probably made some bulk changes and the 4.2 tables may be somewhat less than optimized as a result.
]]>As Six Apart does not provides (as far as I know) any sys-admin reference to achieve an ideal and optminized installation of Movable Type (I have suggested they do this in a future, but in the meanwhile ...), I am wondering if someone care to share their dedicated server configuration/ performance success story with this software, as I need to take some decision and do some benchmark on my own compared to some other php+sql dynamic frameworks.
I mean something like this :
and so on.
As I need to understand ceteribus paribus what is better for some websites.
Thanks for your time.
]]>"Your account was suspended by the technical department and the reason is it caused heavy server load - MT. But, this time it was mt-search cgi script which is an optional part of Movable type that was causing the load. Perl scripts always take more resources compared to PHP and are not server-friendly.
I would recommend you disable the mt-search. As a long term fix, I think you should start looking for a PHP/MySQL blog. If your account continue to causing high load and you have more members/visitors than a shared server server can hold, you may want to look into upgrading your account to a dedicated plan."
Is this true, should I better use wordpress then MT?
FYI, I got about 1000 visitors on my blog daily.
]]>On my site (which has about 500 entries), I found that including the Archives widget made my rebuild time about 5 times slower overall: http://www.cantoni.org/2008/03/04/mt-archive-widget
Has anyone else seen similar results?
I have not yet run this test with the logging-enabled build of MTOS, but will try that next.
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