Installing Movable Type: The Simple Way

Staggernation recently provided a simple and quick guide to installing Movable Type.


Metis Internet Partners host Movable Type blogs on pair Networks. The following is a modified guide to installing Movable Type easily with pair.


1) Download the latest version of Movable Type. Choose the .tar.gz (for Unix, Linux, Mac OS X servers) option for the download.


2) Find the downloaded file eg MT-4.01-en.tar.gz.


3) Upload this file to the directory on your server where you want the MT directory to go—in other words, upload it not to your Movable Type directory (if it already exists) but one level up.

If you've ever uploaded Movable Type file-by-file, you'll quickly see how much faster it is to do it this way.


4) Open a shell (command-line) connection to your server using ssh. You may need to download Putty and navigate to the directory where you just uploaded the MT distribution file. See some common SSH commands for help on how to browse the server using Putty. cd /usr/home/ etc changes the directory.


5) Browse to the correct directory using Putty. When you have reached the directory that holds MT-4.01-en.tar.gz type the following:


tar -xzf MT-4.01-en.tar.gz


This will extract the files from the archive. It will take 10 to 15 seconds on a pair server.


6) Change the name of the folder through SSH, FTP or through the pair admin control panel and then login to Movable Type.


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