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May 06, 2004
Using Movable Type
TWiki did not work for me. BlogEd is yet another client. Besides Movable Type has these cool pastel CSS defaults.
Installing this at our current ISP with no ssh -- ssh costs more than having the site itself hosted -- worked fairly quickly, taking me in total probably 1:30. I'm not particularly fast, so sat there staring at the 403 (access forbidden) error when Apache would not run mt-check.cgi. Finally, my sleepy brain decided to recall sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start, and I looked through the doc. It turns out you can drop an .htaccess file into the directory where you installed Movable Type and Apache runs the CGIs.
$ cat .htaccess Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
BTW, I downloaded the full version + libs. This gives you all the Perl modules you need to run Movable Type so you don't have to install them on the ISP's system.
I've used BlogEd at work, and also at a test site. It's not bad, and it's in Java, so theoretically, I should be able to fix the small bugs myself. The code can be had through CVS. Trouble is, I want to blog, not write a blog editor. At least not yet.
TWiki looks good for categorization and collaboration. I envisioned a family site, with multiple players. But the troubles started when I tried to get a version of Net::SMTP working so TWiki could send notifications. I even got a notification or two by email, but finally just gave up. Comment if you like. When you cannot login to your ISP, you're pretty limited.
Posted by Mark at May 6, 2004 11:21 PM