Installing Movable Type on Debian Lenny

Okay so I upgraded to Lenny to be able to use Movable Type. 

I used the aptitude package to search for packages with movable in them and found the movabletype-opensource and movabletype-plugin-core packages as well as the movable virtual package.

So I installed the virtual package and then installed the core plugins separately.

After that I had to find out how to use the bblogging software. How to activate a blog ???

Mmmm okay so I RTFM’d but it didn’t seem to be making much sense.

I run more than one site using Apache with virtual hosts - so I don’t have a dedicated server …. which it seems is what the documentation likes to talk about.

So … time to find out where some of these files were.

find / -iname movable*

proved useful showing (amongst others)

/etc/movabletype-opensource
/etc/apache2/conf.d/movabletype-opensource
/usr/share/movabletype
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/movabletype-opensource
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/movabletype-plugin-core
/usr/share/doc/movabletype-opensource
/usr/share/doc/movabletype-plugin-core
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/movabletype

At least I had an idea where the movable type stuff was and could relate this to the documentation instructions.

Using one of my domains, I started with the basic cgi installation, made a subdirectory in my cgi-bin directory and copied everything from

/usr/lib/cgi-bin/movabletype

into that directory.

I then copied eveything from

/usr/share/movabletype

into a new subdir in the domain’s web-root and fixed the broken links between the cgi-bin subdirectory and this new subdir.

I also copied

/etc/movabletype-opensource/mt-config.cgi

to the cgi-bin subdir and edited it to reflect my requirements.

After sorting out some file and directory permissions and placements I had the blog working.

Yeay!!

More later …