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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 28 KB, 659 words
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How do I add a new weblog in Movable Type?
Answer
Assuming you have the necessary permissions to create weblogs in the system: • Determine the location for your new weblog and create the folder for it on your server, using FTP or a File Manager provided by your host. If your server is not running under cgiwrap or suexec, remember to set the permissions on the new folder to the UNIX equivalent of 777.
Tip: It may not always be necessary for you to create the weblog folder yourself: in version 3.21, Movable Type will try to create the folder...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 28 KB, 608 words
Question
When I save an entry or rebuild my site, I receive an error that says "Writing to filename.new failed".
Answer
End of the error message says No such file or directory
• Make sure that you have created the folder where you want Movable Type to publish your blog files.
• Make sure you have properly set your path(s) in Settings > Publishing1. In almost all cases, you should be using a full server path for Site Root ( and Archive Root, if enabled)2. (See How can I find my full server path? for more information.)
End of the error message says...
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Six Apart Knowledgebase, Manuals, 27 KB, 492 words
Question
When installing Movable Type (or trying to access the Configuration Menu for the Nofollow plugin in a version prior to 3.2), I receive an error saying Your DataSource directory does not exist.
Answer
Error occurs during installation
First, make sure you have created a folder named db, and that you have set its permissions to the equivalent of chmod 777 (if you are not running under cgiwrap or suexec).
Then, make sure you've specified the full server path1 for the DataSource setting in mt-config.cgi2. For example: DataSource...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 34 KB, 3291 words
Moving your Movable Type blog to a new server or to a new host is much more perilous than you might think. If not done properly, you could lose all of your entries. I recently went through this exercise and what saved me was a set of instructions from MT user Russcam. What I've done here is reworked Russcam's instructions for what worked for me with moving a site with multiple MT blogs. In some cases in this document I copy his words, word for word. I may get skewered for plagarism here, but I hate PDFs and need a web-findable record of what I did. This is essentially Russ's work, with my tweeks and ammendments. Please leave comments, questions, or proposed amendments in the...
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Six Apart User Manual, Manuals, 29 KB, 1392 words
2.0b1 (2002.02.18)
• Lots of changes to the UI: leftnav, topnav, edit-entry screen, new-entry screen, etc. • Blog Editing Menu has now changed greatly to provide space for a welcome message (editable in blog config), blog stats, and links to 5 most recent posts and comments. • Added the ability to do NFS-safe database locking using .lock files and link(). This is not something most people should worry about; if it affects you, it's likely that you will know it. :) Thanks to Kelsey Cummings for ideas and code. • Hold and Release are now Draft and Publish...
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 156 KB, 5988 words
This plugin allows you to define search and replace parameters for elements you produce from Movable Type templates. Keep reading for the details.
More details forthcoming-- for now I'm just providing the download link. The readme.txt in the zip file has all the relevant information.
Availability
You can download this plugin here: mtregex-1_61.zip
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Brad Choate, Tutorials, 81 KB, 3107 words
It's a shame MT doesn't provide year-based archives because some of us have enough entries for them even if Movable Type hasn't been out that long! Here's what my 2001 blogging year looks like. Well, you can create them manually-- and since you only have to do it once a year, it isn't too bad. Click the 'more' link for details...
All you have to do to build a year archive is create an index template...
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Brad Choate, Plugins, 141 KB, 5891 words
<MTPerlScript> is tag for Movable Type templates. If you know how to write Perl code, this custom tag gives you remarkable flexibility in producing pages from Movable Type. You can literally do any kind of manipulation you can think of using your Movable Type data.
This tag was written with a 'trust-the-programmer' mentality (or in this case, the template writer). There aren't any restrictions...
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mgs | September 27th 2005