Comments on: Setting Up Movable Type 4 on a MAMP Server

By: Movable Type und MacOS X – Der Schockwellenreiter

Movable Type und MacOS X – Der Schockwellenreiter — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:25:18 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:23:59 +0000

My pleasure Vik. Thanks for the comment.

By: Vik

Vik — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:44:09 +0000

Thanks very much! This was extremely helpful.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:36:19 +0000

Hi Ted,

Thanks for your kind comments, and I’m delighted that this helped out in some small way.

All the best,
Paul.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:26:13 +0000

Paul,

Thanks so much for the tutorial; I was all but beating my head up against a wall trying to get the perl to install on my computer. I was shivering to think of the rest of the install!

You saved me a ton of time; thanks a ton.

Cheers!

Ted

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:23:02 +0000

Thanks for this Paul, I was having trouble until I found your tutorial – nice work.

I’ve managed to get all the way through the process but Movable Type fails when trying to write the configuration file: I get the following error: “The wizard was unable to save the Movable Type configuration file”

I’ve checked the permissions and they’re set to 755 – even tried 775. I’m using 10.5.6, MAMP Pro 1.7.2 (demo).

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Cheers

Ben

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:48:55 +0000

Hi Clifton and welcome!

I’m delighted that this post has been so helpful to you!

First off, it might be that MT4 is unable to open the mt-static folder. Your home folder generally has permissions that allow only you and the system to access it. It could be the permissions may need to be changed.

What’s the exact path to your MAMP htdocs folder. I presume if you’ve changed it, it’s something like ~/htdocs? Check the permissions on that folder and sub-folders (such as cgi-bin) as well.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. I have to head to work, but I’ll play around with it tomorrow and post back with anything else I can find.

Thanks,
Paul.

By: Clifton

Clifton — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:23:20 +0000

Paul, this tutorial rocks. I have it bookmarked. Please never remove it from the interwebs. :) I look at this all the time.

I am hitting one error. I’m getting this:

“Error: ‘http://localhost:8888/mt-static’ could not be found. Please move your static files to the directory first or correct the setting if it is incorrect.”

But I’m positive my mt-static folder is there. When I view that address in a browser, I get “mt-static – OK”

The only thing I’ve done differently than you is change the location of my document root. I like having it off my home folder so that Time Machine backs up all my local websites. It should still work the same, though. I’ve tried manually creating my mt-config.cgi file, too.

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:28:19 +0000

On my Leopard 10.5.5 system it’s perl version 5.8.8.

After a bit of searching I found this page on the MT website:

http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/system-requirements.html

From this page, MT4 is supported with any version of perl greater than 5.8.1, and with Apache versions 1.3x and 2.x.

It does say that using mod_perl with Apache 2.x is not supported. I wonder if this could be the issue?

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:30:33 +0000

Paul, what version of Perl are you using? 10.4 has 5.8.1.