RM: Movable Type on OS X
i am fairly new to your site, but enjoy it very much. I am not a programmer (my wife was a C prgammer) but i am a sys-admin at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.It seems to me that you are running MOVABLE TYPE. Is this a MT install on OS X Server ? just curious. cause i am having trouble gettin it installed and workin i am decent with unix, but still... grrr..
anyhoo... just crious if this was runnin on OS X 'tiger' Server and if you know any sites with info.
//glenn
This is noted somewhere, but the site runs on Linux. Back in the 10.3 days, I tried to get Movable Type running on OS X without a lot of success. I remember having to go to find the DBI bundle, which wasn't playing well with OS X's perl install whatsoever. From what I could tell, or remember, Darwin in 10.3 seemed to ship with a multithreaded version by default and had a few bugs in its configuration files. This was tripping everything up when it was easy as pie to get going on Linux.
At the time I found some workarounds online, but none of them were doing anything for me... I was looking at blowing away OS X's Perl install with something a little more standard, and then realized since I was looking at moving to Word Press eventually, which I had up easily on OS X, I just didn't want to take the time to really mess with it and installed it on my local Linux box instead. I haven't looked at it since. However, I know it's possible to do it, and I'm sure someone can fill some good URLs in the comments to help you out.
Posted by drunkenbatmanSeptember 03, 2005, at 06:25 PM
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Posted by: Rosyna at September 3, 2005 07:06 PM
Jason, that link is broken as the first instruction is "su root" instead of "sudo -s"...
Posted by: Sam at September 3, 2005 07:41 PM
I remember installing this on my computer (os x client) a while ago (not sure if I was on 10.3 or 10.4). I don't think I came across any real troubles, just installed a few perl modules with cpan and that was it. iirc.
Posted by: jerome at September 3, 2005 08:13 PM
I setup MT once, was a horrid experience, on OS X Server 10.3 on an Xserve
MT setup sucks... but do recall it worked
Posted by: Twist at September 3, 2005 08:13 PM
I have ran multiple versions of Movable Type on 10.3 and 10.4. In fact I have been working on a how-to for using MT 3.2 locally to publish to .Mac or a no-frills web server with FTP access. The secret I have found is to use the Berkeley Database option instead of MySQL. By doing this there are no extra components you need to install for basic functionality. I hope to have my how-to online sometime later tonight or tomorrow so if anyone is interested keep a watch on my blog.
Posted by: william doyle at September 3, 2005 08:46 PM
I wanted to install MT on OS X as well and came across this article which is the best one I had found and made the process relatively simple....
http://lawver.net/geek/geeked/002212.php
here are two other general install links that sum things up nicely:
http://www.clearpointsystems.com/smtii.php
http://www.mattmaxwelldesign.com/mtforbeginners/
Posted by: Ed Finkler at September 3, 2005 09:01 PM
Here's one thing you should NOT do.
"chmod 777"
Ever. ever ever ever.
I see people suggest this all the time on MT support boards.
Posted by: Joshua Voorhies at September 3, 2005 09:07 PM
Could someone please tell me what the F16 key is for?
Posted by: Nat at September 4, 2005 02:10 AM
MT 3.2's installation process is considerably slicker than previous versions, which installed on OS X exactly as well or badly as on other unix-like platforms. The SQLite back end, available since 2.6.x, makes for a rather easier out-of-box experience than Berkeley DB (if your system's BDB is out of date) or MySQL.
Posted by: tcremer at September 4, 2005 02:12 AM
"chmod 777" - hehe... are people still doing that?
I remember once I chmoded a .txt file that contained Perl code and damn if it didn't execute. :P
Posted by: PXLated at September 4, 2005 03:34 PM
If you're interested in MT, go take a look at Expression Engine. Installs just fine on OSX and there are many (way over a thousand) MT converts. I find it far more flexible and full featured as well as cheaper. A lot of things that require a plugin or module in MT are just built-in with EE even though it also has a module/plugin architecture. It's LAMP (php).
http://www.pmachine.com/ee/
Posted by: noneck noel at September 5, 2005 11:39 PM
why use MT when you can use Drupal - http://www.drupal.org ???? actually there is this bad ass version of Drupal that comes with just about everything that MT has PLUS more... check out Civicspace - http://www.civicspacelabs.org
all you need is a standard LAMP environment and you'll be up and running... snap this up and enjoy! http://www.mamp.info/
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