Movable Type 4 update

September 23, 2007 6:40 PM | | Comments (0)

I've upgraded the blog to Movable Type 4. It didn't go entirely without problems - which is pretty much par for the course. Here's a brief run-down of what I did for reference.

Installation

  • Save off a copy of the database using phpMyAdmin to an SQL dump
  • Upload MT 4.1 to server and unpack to /cgi-bin/mt4 and /mt-static4 (to avoid overwriting the 3.3 installation)
  • Set the cgi files to be executable
  • Load mt.cgi which started upgrading the database
  • Puzzle greatly over the Error 403: Forbidden which I got in the middle of the database upgrade. This happened if I repeated the operation.
  • Load mt.cgi in IE7 - it worked perfectly!

Configuration

  • Refresh all the templates from the main blog menu
  • Go to the Archive Templates and set up archive mappings
  • Choose a TWT (thin-wide-thin) layout style

Plugins


  • Install MediaManager 2.0b1

  • Copy the Amazon details from the system overview preferences into the individual blog preferences

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