| Installing MT onto XP from scratch (including PERL and Apache). Forgive the length of this message, here is a start-to-finish account, including getting past the DB_FILE error. First I had to get perl and apache, searching around perl.org I found a set of different Perl possibilities: http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html#win32 I selected the following because it contained a complete installation of the latest perl and apache with modules. Perl/Apache/mod_perl/mod_ssl/php for Win32. Perl-5.8-win32-bin.exe, consisting of Perl-5.8.0 and Apache 2.0.43 ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/ I grabbed the whole directory: Perl-5.8-win32-bin and then followed the joining instructions to create a 37MB file this has a Perl, Apache2 and lots of modules Running Perl-5.8-win32-bin.exe unzippled into three directories, Perl, Apache2, and Readme's following the readme i put perl and apache2 directly under c:\ then I ran the perl config accepting all defaults: C:\Perl\bin> perl configure.pl Add the location of the perl bin/ and the Apache2 bin/ directory to your PATH. (append ";C:\perl\bin;c:\apache2\bin" to PATH set the following environment variables (these are under control panel: system: advanced: environmental variables) HOME=C:\ TERM=dumb NAME=your_name_without_spaces Apache didnt't behave itself from the command line (as listed in the readme) but in the Apache2/bin directory there is a file: ApacheMonitor.exe which allows you to turn on apache on and off as a service (and defaults it appears to setting apache to run automatically; you can change this in Services) Then i edited the apache config file: C:\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf (I had to use wordpad first to open some of these 'text' files, add a space somewhere and save to take care of the little squares that showed up on notepad) I made sure the following were set: ServerRoot "C:/Apache2" DocumentRoot "C:/Apache2/htdocs" Then I could point my browswer to http://localhost/ and see that apache was running. Now to MT I unzipped/tarred it to MT-2.63-full-lib somewhere then I made the following directories: C:\Apache2\htdocs\mt-static C:\Apache2\htdocs\blog C:\Apache2\cgi-bin\db then copied from MT-2.63-full-lib styles.css /docs /images into C:\Apache2\htdocs\mt-static the rest I copied into C:\Apache2\cgi-bin\ Then I edited C:\Apache2\cgi-bin\mt.cfg with the following lines: CGIPath http://localhost/cgi-bin/ DataSource C:\Apache2\cgi-bin\db StaticWebPath /mt-static/ [I suggest rebooting at this point] Now for the tricky stuff. I tried to access http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt-check.cgi as directed, and got a horrible DB_FILE not detected (thanks to some webpages) it turns out that you can run this program from the command line: c:\apache2\cgi-bin perl mt-check.cgi and it finds DB_FILE so then I ran c:\apache2\cgi-bin perl mt-load.cgi and that worked too but still I couldn't get http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt-check.cgi or http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt.cgi to work from the browser. Still the same DB_FILE problem Finally I REBOOTED, it all worked! enter Melody and Nelson as password to get in, then change these I'm too tired to figure out if I had rebooted where I suggest above whether it would work. Anyway, I hope this helps, let me know if i missed something. |
MovableType Successfully Installed on Windows XP