August 2007 Archives
The whole point of doing this was t make photo blog. I'm just not able to fulfill that right now in the way that I'd planned - as a replacement / enhancement / evolution of what I have on eatmorechips.com. This a bit of a shame. But at least I've started.
On the radio the other day was 'Spirit of Radio' by Rush. A rare hear on the radio. Yes, I turned it up loud and mused about Geddy Lee and Rickenbacker basses and even spared a thought for long-lost Mark Elliott (where he?).
Anyway, today in the paper (Guardian) the 'Readers recommend [songs about...]' today is a out Radio and aforementioned Rush song is at number seven. Interestingly the correspondent (young enough to have listened to the Radio 1 breakfast show under Chris Moyles - so pretty young) describes Rush as "mediocre". Which they weren't.
NSTAC number two: Finally got round to buying Scott Walker music. Now own Scott 4 and Tilt. Article in same paper as above... about Diana Dors who's album Swingin' Dors was orchestrated (as in orchestrally arranged) by Wally Stott who "later arranged many of Scott Walker's later recordings".
What a coordinated and linked world we live in.
With the help of Rob Golding at beyondperception.net (where I am hosted) I had to do the following:
- Manually change the name of the mt-config.cgi.original file to mt-config.cgi
- Manually edit it so that the CGIPath entry reflected the path and not URL to my /cgi-bin/mt folder, and then do the equivalent for the StaticWebPath entry.
- Manually update the Database Settings in the mt-config file to reflect the mySQL databases that I created BEFORE installing MT4. Make sure that the database has the full name which is likely to also reflect your domain (my database is called "movabletype" but as far as mt-config is concerned it is called "eatmorec_movabletype". Sames goes for the DBUser entry. Use the <domain_> prefix as well.
- Manually comment out all of the Database Settings bits that relate to the types of databases that I wasn't using (like Postgres).
- Add the path to the mt-config.cgi file to all of the (relevant) *.cgi files in the /cgi-bin/mt folder. Like this:
- # use MT::Bootstrap App => 'MT::App::CMS';
- use MT::Bootstrap App => 'MT::App::CMS', Config => '<your full domain path>/cgi-bin/mt/mt-config.cgi';
- The commented out line above is the original. The second line is mine... It is the FULL path as reflected in the mt-check.cgi output (did I say that this is a very useful tool? Run it before and after step #1 above).
- Edit each *.cgi file replacing the $ENV{MT_HOME} lines like this:
- # use lib $ENV{MT_HOME} ? "$ENV{MT_HOME}/lib" : 'lib';
- use lib '/home/eatmorec/public_html/cgi-bin/mt/lib';
- Final step was to correctly type in by database password having repeatedly got it wrong.
- When I'd done all of the above, late into the night with Rob at beyondperception.net helping me late into the night as well, it all worked fine!
I've no idea yet what 'Pages' are buit I have just created one and I can search for it (and so can you). It doesn't seem to be linked from anywhere but I can create a link from this post. Click here.
Just read a post indicating that the Photo Gallery plugin is unsupported in MT4. Sigh.
I'm going to reinstall the plugin. So I've deleted / removed it. And now I can't unpack the tar.gz file. On my Win machine.
As in... I can't find how to work it. It is installed and enabled so presumably works. But I can't find the 'plugin actions' link to actually use it.
Well, that failed. I tried to upload a picture into this post. Will keep trying...
How is MT so successful? It is so hard to install!
Maybe it is to keep the oiks out? Whatever...
It has taken hours to get here so it had better be worth it. Big plans for photo hosting.
Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!
