Ten Fingers, 6 Strings: New Host

October 17, 2005

New Host

Ok everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. I was a little quite for a couple of reasons, a) I went climbing and b) this site was in the process of being moved to a new hosting site. If you commented in the last few days and it was deleted, sorry, it was a casualty of the move.

However, don't fear my commenting friends, if you go to the comments section, we added one of those cool little Turing Code inputs. So, when you comment, you'll have to enter in a few numbers. I think this alternative is better than me having to risk deletion during my daily spam purges.

Kyle, do you mind dropping a brief comment letting Ian know how you did it? I could say something about it, but it would probably result in making me look like a retar....um, specially challenged person.

Let the posting begin!

Posted by 10 fingers 6 strings at October 17, 2005 07:10 AM | TrackBack

Comments

TF6S -

I would be delighted to drop a comment on how I did it.

Ian - I will hopefully get to this tonight.

Posted by: Kyle at October 17, 2005 08:40 AM

Wow, you are all techno geek now. I didn't know there was such a thing as comment Spam. Glad you were able to get out and refresh yourself in the mountains. I hope it gave you new vigor to write some posts on Iraq and their historic constitution vote. That really is amazing.

Posted by: Rick at October 17, 2005 10:05 AM

Ian and anybody else interested in James Seng's scode plug in for Movable Type:

First step...go here: http://james.seng.cc/archives/000145.html

There is a link within the entry where you can download an archive of the scode solution (http://james.seng.cc/scode-0.1c.tar.gz).

The readme does a very good job of walking you through the process. At a high level, this is what needs to be done:

1. You definitely need shell access. If you don't have it work with your ISP to see if they can create a directory above your "public_html" directory.

2. Once this directory is created, make sure it is writeable by the webuser/webengine (In the Unix world, it's a chmod 755 ).

3. Edit the Scode.pm file updating the temp directory parameter to the directory created in step 1.

4. Upload this file to the lib/MT directory of your Movable Type installation.

5. Upload mt-scode.cgi to the directory where your mt.cgi program lives and make sure it has the correct permissions.

6. Upload scode.pl to the plugins directory of your Movable Type installation.

7. Edit Comments.pm in lib/MT/App/ according to the directions in the README file (Note: He mentions a snippet of code for reference that will be the next lines after you edit Comments.pm. In 3.x the snippet will be similiar, but not exactly the same.)

8. For 3.x installations pass on #7 for the time being. Skip down to #10-#17 and edit Context.pm in lib/MT/Template.

9. Go back up to #7 and complete it as well as #8 & #9.

Hopefully it will be as easy as that! I am willing to help out if anyone needs it. You can reach me at kwhirsch -at- gmail.com

Posted by: Kyle at October 17, 2005 09:54 PM