To install Movable Type v3.2, please follow these steps:
II. UPLOAD MOVABLE TYPE V3.2 FILES TO YOUR NETFIRMS ACCOUNT
3. Connect to your Netfirms FTP account using an FTP client (eg. FileZilla).
4. Double-click the www folder.
5. Within the www folder, create a new directory named mt. (To create a new directory using Filezilla, right click anywhere while inside the www folder and choose Create Directory from the pull-down menu)
6. Upload the contents of the mt-static directory to the new mt directory.
NOTE: Once all contents of "mt-static" have been uploaded to "mt", you should have an "images" directory, a "js" directory, an "mt.js" file, and a "styles.css" file all located within the "mt" directory on the server.
7. Access the cgi-bin directory from your Netfirms FTP account and create a new directory named mt.
8. Upload all other files to the cgi-bin. Upload all files from the extracted .zip file, except for the mt-static folder.
III. INSTALL A MYSQL DATABASE TO YOUR NETFIRMS HOSTING ACCOUNT
9. Logon to your Netfirms Control Panel at https://controlpanel.netfirms.com.
10. Click Hosting
11. Choose Databases
12. Click MySQL
13. Click Add
14. For the database description, enter Movable Type v3-2.
15. Click Add
IMPORTANT: Write down your database id, username, and password as you will need to refer to it later.
IV. CONFIGURE MOVABLE TYPE V3.2
16. Access your Netfirms FTP account (eg. using Filezilla) .
17. Download a copy of mt-config.cgi-original
18. Using a text editor (eg. Noetpad) open the mt-config.cgi-original file and edit your CGIPath setting: On line 28:
Change this:
CGIPath http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/mt/To this:
CGIPath http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/mt/Note: Replace yourdomain.com within your actual domain name hosted with Netfirms.
19. Edit your MySQL database settings: Starting at line 35:
Change this:
# ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
# Database <database-name>
# DBUser <database-username>
# DBPassword <database-password>
# DBHost localhost
To this:
ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
Database Your Database Name
DBUser Your Database User Name
DBPassword Your Database Password
DBHost MYSQLHOST
Note: Please use the database name, user name, and password that was written down earlier on step III. 15. Be sure to remove the "#" characters.
20. Edit your StaticWebPath setting: On line 86:
Change this:
# StaticWebPath http://www.example.com/mt-staticTo this:
StaticWebPath http://www.yourname.com/mt/Note: Replace yourdomain.com within your actual domain name hosted with Netfirms. Be sure to remove the "#" character.
21. Save your changes to a file called mt-config.cgi. 22. Upload "mt-config.cgi" to your "../cgi-bin/mt/" directory on your Netfirms FTP account.
23. While still connected to your Netfirms FTP account download a copy of ../cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/App.pm.
24. Using a text editor (eg. Notepad) open App.pm .
25. Locate line 76 and make the following changes:
Before:
$app->{cgi_headers}{-status} = ($app->response_code || 200) . " "
. ($app->{response_message} || "");
After:
#$app->{cgi_headers}{-status} = ($app->response_code || 200) . " "
# . ($app->{response_message} || "");
Note: We simply added the "#" character to the beginning of each line.
26. Save the revised file and upload it back to ../cgi-bin/mt/lib/MT/. Please be sure to overwrite the existing file.
V. COMPLETE THE INSTALLATION
27. Browse to http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi (where yourdomain.com is your registered domain name hosted by Netfirms).
28. Click the Finish Install button.
29. After you receive the "Installation complete!" message, click the Login to Movable Type button.
30. Login with Melody for the user name and Nelson for the password.
31. You should now see a orange warning message which states "Important: Configure this weblog.". Please click configure this weblog.
32. Enter your desired Weblog Name.
33. Enter http://yourdomain.com/mt/ for the Site URL (where yourdomain.com is your registered domain name hosted by Netfirms).
34. Append www/mt/ to the end of the Site Root. For example: /mnt/web_d/d06/s30/a000tu7p/www/mt/
35. Select your Time Zone.
36. Click Save Changes.
37. Click Rebuild Files.
38. Click Rebuild from the Pop-up window.
39. Click the Close button to close the Rebuild window.
You may now start building your MoveableType webblog. Additional Movable Type Resources:
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