hi, I was looking to set up a second blog, but when I do it overwrites my first one. I set up a second folder for the index and other static files to go (u can't have two index files) and they should both share the mt folder that has all the mt scripts. But I can see why it doesn't work (cause of mt.cfg directing it to the first blog's folder), but I just can't figure out how to fix it. Can anyone help?

Thank you!

In the second blog, you need to go into Weblog Config and set Local Site Path and Local Archive Path to point at the second folder you created.

Go to the main screen that lists all the weblogs.

Click on "add new weblog"

fill in the info - making sure its different from the first blog. You don't touch mt.cfg although it does read some stuff form there. You won't have to point it at any of the same folders and shouldn't or it will overwrite as noticed.

Does that help? If not, will need more details of what exactly you're doing, step by step. =)

New person, same problem:

I can't seem to create a second blog that I can view
From the main menu I have created a second, third and even fourth blogs, none I can "view" -- they just don't exist in any files online even after rebuilding. What I see when I type view is the 1st blog only

based upon above suggestions I've set up a second blog directory, now when I hit "view" I get the "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden." When I look in the directory with FTP there are no index files loaded -- no files period.

Here is my main blog (1st blog) settings that work

Local Site Path: /var/www/cgi-bin/blog

Site URL: http://www.jssgallery.org/blog/

Local Archive Path: /var/www/cgi-bin/blog/archives

Archive URL: http://www.jssgallery.org/archives/

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I've tried creating a second blog with new local directory site path still nothing

Local Site Path: /var/www/cgi-bin/blog/

Site URL: http://www.jssgallery.org/blog//natashascorner/

Local Archive Path: /var/www/cgi-bin/blog/archives

Archive URL: http://www.jssgallery.org/archives/

you need to create your blog directories outside the cgi-bin directory, some place where the web server looks for HTMl documents. Usually this is something like /var/www/htdocs, although it varies with webserver configuration. Find out what your webserver's DocumentRoot is, and change the local and archive paths accordingly.

your different blogs should be created in separate directories
i.e. /var/www/htdocs/blog1, /var/www/htdocs/blog2, etc

Imaappreciative !!

That did the trick.

Thank you so much!!