Hi! I’m a Movable Type Newbie…
June 14, 2007
These past few days I spent time learning about Movable Type (MT), that newly open-sourced blogging framework based on Perl. The plan is to use it for one of my blog project. I’ve heard about the tricky installation of MT beforehand that made disconcert to some. But that’s the fun of learning, right? You do the hard stuff so you can learn something from it. So that’s exactly what I usually do and this goes to MT as well.
First, I install it on my local home box and quite frankly, it was not so difficult after all. I only had to do some usual stuff like changing database name in its configuration file. Better yet, you can do it via a wizard file (mt-wizard.cgi). Though different from Wordpress, MT is heavily base on Perl and you have to put the executable on the cgi-bin directory.
After playing it around on my homebox, I then try it on the live server yesterday. Right after the upload and database setting process has finished something peculiar happens. The process stuck on one of the installation page. That’s just great, another headache. I found a similar solution by googling. However, I still had the error after I implement it. Okay, after a couple of tries finally I found the answer. As stupidly as it may seem, I haven’t upload some of the files and directories to the appropriate place in the server. Doh! So that’s why…
Then the installation went smoothly, but since it was working hours, I have to stop for a moment. Am planning to tinker with it much more tonight. Will keep posted about this MT thing in future post.
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Okay, life must go on, right? So with the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda and the recent festive of Pesta Blogger 2007. I officially announce that:
It's just around the corner, not very far away.
The reason? Well you can say that I'm getting bored with Wordpress and I want to try something new. But trust me, I won't move it anywhere else in the future, I will use patvandiest.com as my main blog, always. I promise you that!
So please... please update your bookmark, I will forever graceful if you do that. But if you are reading my blog through my Feedburner account, worry not, I will automatically update the link. That goes to my other social networking related link.
I won't delete this blog, though. I will keep it as past archives of my writings.
So, sorry for this inconvinience. I hope you don't mind. See you at my other room.
Sincerely Yours,
Patrick Gerard van Diest
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