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MovableType with MAMP (OS X)

NOTICE
CONTENTS OUTDATED

The MAMP+MT implementation process today differs drastically from the time this tutorial was first posted. I suggest checking the comments for a link of a possible updated tutorial from another user.

I tried installing MovableType locally in my laptops webserver (OSX), but ran into some snags. It turns out that there are non built-in perl modules required for it to access the MySQL database. What made it worse is that I was running MAMP and not the normal Apache webserver bundled with the OS.

I figured I’d write this for those users planning to do the same thing… and of course the ever persistent reason of “for my future reference.” Read More

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Updates galore

I’ve updated a bunch of stuff in the last 48 hours. Namely:

  • MovableType
  • Ecto
  • iTunes
  • QuickTime

MovableType being the focus of this post. But some other webnews will be discussed I guess (like that new iPod) hehehe.

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MovableType 3.16

I checked out http://www.movabletype.org and found out that there was update to MovableType 3.x. Naturally, I thought “what the hell, might as well upgrade too.”

Absent-mindedly I set the FTP upload to replace any existing directories… so the plugins directory was obliterated and replaced with a fresh empty one.

My blog is heavily modified with plugins and hacks, it simply will not work without them at this juncture, so I began the quest of looking for every last one of ’em – which was rather difficult since you don’t really remember these things.

So here I am, online again. And this time, I’m listing the plugins I use for later reference (read: in case I try something stupid again)

While I’m at it, might as well include links and explanations.

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