Installing Movable Type from yum repository

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This is a test epository for Movable Type ( bulid for Linux Centos 5.x 64bit )

Installation:

1. First you need to access repository, so place into /etc/yum.repos.d file called
movabletype.repo  with text:

[movabletype]
name=Movable Type Repository
baseurl=http://www.rabczuk.com/yumrepo/
gpgcheck=0                             
enabled=1
priority=0
2. Install Movable Type: yum install MT perl-DBI-mysql


Configuration:


Database:

1. Set up mysql-database : mysql -e "create movable_type"
2. Assign user to database : mysql -e "grant all privileges on movabletype.* to mtuser@localhost identified by 'password123'

Movable Type:

1. Create a configuration file: touch /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/mt-config.cgi

2, Edit /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/mt-config.cgi , file should look like:

CGIPath   /cgi-bin/mt/
StaticWebPath    /mt-static/
StaticFilePath /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static
ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
Database movable_type
DBUser movabletype
DBPassword password123
DBHost localhost
Apache:
1. Create vhosts file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ called mydomain.conf
2. Insert lines:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.YOURDOMAINHERE.com
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
    Alias /mt-static/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/"
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
</VirtualHost>
3. Restart apache by sudo /etc/init.d/httpd graceful

Postinstallation:
1. Access with your browser to
http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi
2. Follow instructions.

When Creating new blog be sure you specify a publish path to /var/www/html/*



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