Help! Installing MT Locally on OS X
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Update: I figured it out. Site and archive paths have to be specified using /Library/WebServer/Documents/[subDirectory] rather than any other method (e.g., “localhost” or your machine’s IP). Seems it’s no particular component’s fault, but a confluence of idiosyncrasies.
I’m trying to get MT up and running locally under Mac OS 10.2.1 and keep getting permissions errors which I just can’t figure out. I spent yesterday getting MySQL going (no problems at all) and doing a ‘clean’ install of MT 2.5. I then brought in a subset of the entries from Antipixel, populated the DB without incident, and looked ready to go. Except, that is, for
Permission denied at /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/lib/MT/
FileMgr/Local.pm line 104
when trying to save a new entry. MT is trying to create a new directory at this point to archive the new entry, but it isn’t being allowed to. I’ve tried setting permissions on the relevant directories every way I can, but nothing changes.
If anyone has MT running locally under OS X, I’d love to hear from you. Post a comment or send mail to jeremy @ antipixel dot com.
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Posted to MetaStuff • 2002.10.27 (Sun) • 13:58
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Posted by Walt 2002.10.27, 15:50
Are you running it under the MySQL database option? I'd be interested in hearing what steps you followed to install the DBD::mysql and DBI modules.
Posted by jh 2002.10.27, 16:15
You're going to love this:
http://www.heavyhosting.net/AppToolkit/downloads.html
Download the "Bundle-DBI.dmg" disk image, mount it, double-click the installer, choose the modules you want, wait a minute, and you're done!
These modules do NOT work with Perl 5.8 – you need to stick with the 5.6 version that ships with OS X (which I found out the hard way).
Posted by Walt 2002.10.27, 17:36
Awesome. Thank you.
Posted by todd 2002.10.28, 03:57
Not sure if this helps at all…but:
http://www.kung-foo.tv/blog/archives/000278.html
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Todd
Posted by icb 2002.10.28, 05:21
Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X on Macdevcenter.com should help with this issue. Part 2 - specifically explains how to enable CGI with Apache/OS X. Worth the read.
Posted by jh 2002.10.28, 16:58
Todd – I hadn't seen that. Thanks for the link. There's a really important security tip on that page that's worth paying attention to.
icb – That's a great series, isn't it. I came across it trying to figure things out and the section you mention was indeed helpful. I've bookmarked the whole thing to go back and read it all properly when I can.
Posted by victor 2002.10.28, 20:19
I'm running an MT weblog on an OS X Server at http://www.claddaghring.org, with the Berkeley DB. For the moment, my host has not installed the Mysql modules (though I'll point them to the installer above).
Once they do, I'll write a tutorial about how to do it at my own weblogVictor
Posted by resonance 2002.10.29, 14:41
Jeremy,
Don't know how this entry to antipixel slipped past me, but count me among those running MT on OS X. It's the only way I would ever be able to test out my templates (some of which involve PHP and SSI) without losing my sanity. I don't use my powerbook as a webserver except for local development. Once nice feature about Apache is that it's very easy to set up virtual host. So, for testing purposes, I have my httpd.conf file set to run my local etherfarm site off of http://www.etherfarm.dev.
Running MT locally is very handy for making a lot of entries at once, which I can then import into the "live" MT at my host (as I'm currently doing with the new MT-driven eye section of my site).
In any case, your update makes it seem like you've got it under control, though you don't mention using a virtual host (which is a very convenient way to get around OS X's insistence that web documents need to be in /Library/WebServer/Documents/…I run all my local stuff out of ~/Sites. I have four virtual hosts running simultaneously, and it works like a charm. Give me a holler if you need or want more info.
Posted by Anonymous 2003.06.05, 22:27
MoveableType;
http://www.heavyhosting.net/AppToolkit/downloads.html
is currently down.
Can somebody post a alternate link, where I can get the Bundle-DBI.dmg-Image?Thank you.
E
Posted by jh 2003.06.06, 16:16
E — See this post: Bundle::DBI Available Here.
Posted by Ryan J. Bonnell 2003.12.21, 13:15
Hi Jeremy,
We've written a tutorial on how to install Movable Type v2.6 on Apple's OS X v10.3 "Panther", over at our new website MacZealots.com.
You can find the entire tutorial / article at the following URL:
http://maczealots.com/tutorials/movabletype/
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