Instructions for installing Movable Type 4 on UW staff or student website*

3a: SSH into homer.u.washington.edu (staff) or dante.u.washington.edu (students) using a terminal emulator.

3b: Press the O key for other; then the W key for the web development environment (ovid for homer or vergil for dante)

3c: Navigate to the directory where you want to install your blog. For example, my blog is in dietiker/blog/, so I navigated to directory public_html/blog/

cd public_html/blog

3d: Download Movable Type using wget:

wget http://www/movabletype.com/download/personal/MT-4.01a-en.tar.gz

* Note: the current version might be different than the one above; file name will need to be adjusted accordingly. Check their website.

3e: Unzip the file:

tar -xzvf MT-4.01a-en.tar.gz

* Note: filename depends on what version was downloaded; use the ls command to get the file name.

Step 4: Now you are ready to configure Movable Type.

4a: Navigate to the configuration webpage: /username/yourblogdirectory/MT-4.01a-en/mt.cgi

* Note: the name of the directory that mt.cgi resides in may be different depending on the version downloaded.

4b: Follow the instruction in the installation wizard.

4c: when prompted for the root directory to publish files to, you can get this in terminal by running the gpw command. When logged into homer (or dante) and in the web publishing environment, run:

gpw

Look for the entry that begins with W. For example:

W          /hw15/d74/username         /cluster/etc/goaway

So your root directory will be /hw15/d74/username/blog (Assuming you have installed MT in public_html/blog/).

The database is the one you created in phpMyAdmin; the port number is the one you set up during the MySQL install; the webhost is ovid.u.washington.edu (staff) or vergil.u.washington.edu (students); the blog URL is the entire URL for your blog, such as http://staff.washington.edu/username/blog/.

Step 5: Now you can log in to Movable Type, chose a template, and start blogging!