1 post tagged “geekery”

Tonight I finished getting MovableType running on my Powerbook G4. When last I left it, I was lacking several crucial Perl modules. Thanks to this article, I learned that all I needed to do was install DBD::mysql using cpan. First time it giznanked since it was expecting the mysql root user not to have a password. I already have mysql installed on my system, of course, with a password since that's safer. Using navicat, I got rid of the password, ran cpan again, this time successfully, then restored the root user password. After that, MovableType was able to create all the tables it needed to in mysql.

After that, mt-check.cgi was happy and I was able to get mt.cgi. While poking around the movabletype directory, I discovered that there's a php version of it. Interesting. Then I had to figure how to login to mtype. Since I never read documentation unless I can absolutely help it, I was briefly flummoxed by the login screen with no clue how to create the default user. A quick google search informed me I was supposed to login as melody/nelson. Who's that, I wonder?

The only other problem I encountered was when I tried to give my blog publishing directory the same name as the directory where I installed MovableType, Quite understandably, when I tried to publish my blog, it gave me an error message; though not a terribly helpful one, about file permissions. It's always about file permissions in unix.

So now I have a MovableType blog. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with it, since I already have a blog in Typepad, and in Comet. Maybe I'll build a metablog system that takes the same blog entry and posts it to all four of 6A's blogging products. For the Comet post it could auto-create tags and add album art and cat pictures, while the LiveJournal entry would have bunch of omfg!!!s, lol!!s and wtf?!?!s randomly inserted in it.