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October 14, 2008
Problems with the MT 4.21 upgrade
It was a painful process as always. Here are the problems I had that were not adequately addressed in the documentation:
1. I am using a windows client to FTP up the files. In Windows there are just check boxes for the permissions on the .cgi files so when MT says "set permissions to "755", that doesn't help me as a Windows guy. I had to get my ISP to go into Unix shell and set the permissions correctly. I know some windows FTP third party clients support the UNIX number designations on file permissions but Vista does not. Come on MT, help a poor Vista user out.
2. My MT install is on a box that hosts multiple domains. MT still doesn't work well out of the box if you have multiple domains, especially if you are publishing blogs to different domains than your cgi-bin and \mt-static directories. The style sheets didnt apply the styles correctly. I just got one screen, with everything wrapped and no formatting. The support forums (very helpful) pointed me to the styles.css file and a path entry for MT-Static. But no-one there said exactly how to reformat this path entry to point to a different domain.
3. Getting the Styles.css to get formatted with the correct domain is a nightmare. You can manually edit it in the template edit screen (to a fully qualified path), but the "smarter than you style setter" overrides that in the background and resets it to the default path (not fully qualified). This took me a couple times testing and changing to figure out that the system was doing and why the published file didn't match the source screen. So now I have to figure out how to move MT-Static to whereever the system assumes it should be for the other domain. Finally had to change the styles.css global template to have th mt:StaticWebPath variable in it and then figure out what that is (there is no clear way to set it in MT 4.2, you used to be able to edit the .cgi file). then I moved a copy of MT-static directory to that place, and Voila it works!. Ugly. I hope I remember to replace that on the next upgrade...
this is too hard.
Posted by Martin at October 14, 2008 8:28 PM
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Glad you made it through!
Posted by: David Jacobs 
at October 15, 2008 4:50 AM
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