Well, this is the first post in the new Moveable Type driven blog. I think it is an improvement, although I am still having some trouble tinkering the templates so as to make it look just like I want it to look. I suppose I have a bit more reading to do. But at least I got the program running.
It took me forever. I read and reread the installation directions, and it was like they were written in Greek. I could not seem to make much sense of most of it, but what really plagued me was that they did not specifically tell you exactly where to load all those files onto your server. Or so I thought.
I was looking everywhere for the answer. I posted a message on the support board at Moveable Type. When another blogger offered to help, I asked for help. However, sometimes getting away from things clears one's mind. After leaving for awhile, I suddenly arrived at the solution. I needed to think like an attorney instead of a techno-idiot. Where the instructions specifically said to load two directories and a file into one directory, by legal rules of construction, the inclusion of those directories and files in one list, excluded them from the other. As only one other directory where files were to be loaded was mentioned in the instructions, it necessarily meant that the specified directories and file were the only file and directories that were not to be loaded into the alternate directory. After fiddling with the configuation and adding permissions to several files and folders, I was actually able to intiate the program.
However, it was a very short-lived victory. As you were given a default user name and password to access the program, I immediately added my profile and erased the default one. However, I did not associate my new profile with the only blog that was currently named in the program. When I signed back in, I had no access to edit or create any blogs. So, I had to delete most of the files off of the computer, reload from the original zip folder and reconfigure the whole mess one more time. I am actually getting the hang of it.
Posted by Tiger at May 10, 2003 08:13 PM | TrackBack