Setup MovableType in Linux

April 9, 2004

Setup MovableType in Linux

Filed under: Computer — blogadmin @ 10:23 pm

go http://www.movabletype.org, and download the lastest stable version of Movable Type. I’m using MT-2.51-full-lib.tar.
go http://www.mysql.com, and download the lastest stable version of MySQL database. I’m using mysql-max-3.23.55-pc-linux-i686.tar.
Install MySQL server on my linux box first.

shell> groupadd mysql

shell> useradd -g mysql mysql

shell> cd /usr/local

shell> gunzip shell> ln -s full-path-to-mysql-VERSI

shell> cd mysql

shell> scripts/mysql_install_db

shell> chown -R root .

shell> chown -R mysql data

shell> chgrp -R mysql .

shell> bin/safe_mysqld –user=mysql &

or

shell> bin/mysqld_safe –user=mysql &

if you are running MySQL 4.x

or

to allow remove connection from another pc, I have to start MySQL with this command “bin/safe_mysqld –user=mysql –skip-grant-tables”. And I “cp /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/”. So, MySQL server will start automatically at boot time.
Modify /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to let Apache eval cgi
script:

<Directory>

Options FollowSymLinks

Options +ExecCGI (Note: NEW ADDED)

AllowOverride None

</Directory>

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi (Note: NEW ADDED)
Install MySQL program on the same box as running Movable Type.
Install — for connecting MySQL from Perl.

go http://www.mysql.com/downloads/api-dbi.html/, download :

DBI-1.18.tar.gz

Data-ShowTable-3.3.tar.gz

Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2216.tar.gz

For each of these three .gz fils, unzip first, and as root, run :

shell> perl Makefile.PL

shell> make

shell> make test

shell> make install
On the MySQL pc, run this command to test whether you can connect to MySQL server:

shell> mysql -h HOST -u USER

After login, run this for testing:

mysql> SELECT VERSION(), CURRENT_DATE;
go http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtinstall.html, to install Movable Type. Test with “http://www.your-site.com/mt/mt-check.cgi”, and with “http://www.your-site.com/mt/mt-load.cgi” to initialize the system. (Have to remove mt-load.cgi from the “Movable Type” directory afterwards.)
go to “http://www.your-site.com/mt/mt.cgi” to login. The
first time, log in with the author name Melody and the password
Nelson.

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April 9, 2004

Setup MovableType in Linux

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