MT 4 Install Part II
May 21st, 2008
After a few attempts at getting MT 4 to behave, I realized the upgrade from MT 3 to MT 4 did not go smoothly. I had upgraded last month but the install left me juggling too many template issues. I ended up hitting the server earlier this evening (yikes, it’s Wednesday here already) and deleted mt-static and all the cgi files. After downloading a fresh copy of MT 4, I reinstalled everything, set permissions, and ran through the configuration steps. Three hours later, all is working perfectly now ( yeh, 3 hours ’cause I squeezed in some DX during the install process. 
) I’m not impressed with the default, stock templates in MT 4 and will start doing some custom work over the weekend.
Categories: Blog Tech
Yikes, that’s messy. I’ve been through the same thing with SMF which Ham Radio Talk runs on.
KB1JCY: You said it. MT 4 has been highly ‘modularized.’ This basically means that the header, footer, banner, and sidebar code are in separate modules that get pulled into the template pages. This makes perfect sense but it’s just been a bit of an adjustment in thinking. It’s not complicated but I was hoping it would of been less of a time drain – especially given that this blog is for personal use and no one is paying me to dive into it.
P.S. Thunder & lightening here, hope you got those antennas down.