MoveableType installation!

yeah I created myself a database and I put its name there, I don't think there's a problem.

But where it says "DataSource" it's the place you have to put the directory of where your files will go if you're using the "Movable Type's Berkeley DB support"

When you use the Movable Type's Berkeley DB support, they tell you to replace the "./db" by the directory you chose. However, when you're using "Movable Type's MySQL or PostgreSQL database support" they tell you to fill out the last three lines in my previous quote, but they don't say anything about what to do with the "DataSource" line and when I try to load my script, it seems to try to use that datasource folder instead of the one I specified in my MySQL configuration

the instructions are there http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtinstall.html#installation%20directories

Ha, I wouldn't think I'd have so many little buggers

Just comment out that datasource line then. Put a # in front of it.

I am such a beginner, haha

Thank you so much for the tips, it worked. But I will probably have more problems, I'm just that bad.

anyway, thanks again for helpng me

No problem.

ha, as I promised, I am unfortunately back with a little issue...

I think I'm almost done... I rebuilt the site and everything, but when I try to view my blog, it doesn't seem to work

this is the URL: http://www.slightlyoutoffocus.com/cgi-bin/blog/

[quote]Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email]iamstubborn@gmail.com[/email] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.[/quote]

you shouldn't be accessing the site through the cgi-bin. that's just where you put the perl scripts. the actual html files need to be in the domain.com/blog directory.

ok, then I created another folder in my /html/ directory, along with my "static-files" folder. I set the permission to the blog folder to 777 and then created an "archives" folder inside the blog folder then I changed the local site path (/home/virtual/site230/fst/varwww/html/blog) and local archives path (/home/virtual/site230/fst/var/www/html/blog/archives)

Then I tried to rebuild my site and I got this error I was getting earlier

Writing to '/home/virtual/site230/fst/varwww/html/blog/index.html.new'
failed:
Opening local file
'/home/virtual/site230/fst/varwww/html/blog/index.html.new'
failed:
No such file or directory

I don't know man, it's hard for me to help on that kind of stuff when I'm not familiar with your server. You could ask on the Movable Type forums.

It's up an running, it was only a / missing somewhere :rolleyes:

thanks again for the help, I won't have anymore questions about the configuration