Setting Up An MT Blog

It's not a "tip" or a "trick" so much as a checklist. But there are several steps, some easily forgotten, and most are useful to "get right" from the beginning.

Setting Up MT

The default instructions for setting up MT are quite clear and really don't need much elaboration.

If you plan to set up more than one blog on more than one domain with the single installation of MT, then I do recommend setting up MT itself on a separate sub-domain, and within a cgi-bin directory on that domain. For example, if you look at Ask Leo!, Forwarded Funnies, or even this site, you'll see that all references to MT's cgi's are actually off of "http://pugetsoundsoftware.com/cgi-bin" (I neglected to set up a separate subdomain in my own case - ideally it would be something like "http://mt.pugetsoundsoftware.com/cgi-bin".)

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