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katia
I have a camera phone, and really want to try to do some moblogging on my blog.

I signed up with flickr, but when I go to add my blog, so that I can automatically post cameraphone photos to my blog that I sent to flickr by email, I come across this problem :

The MT CGI URL you entered was not correct.

It goes on to tell me :

Top 5 possible reasons why your MT URL didn't work are:
You don't have the mt-xmlrpc.cgi file uploaded,
You uploaded your mt-xmlrpc.cgi file in binary mode instead of ascii mode,
You didn't set the path to perl correctly in mt-xmlrpc.cgi. (It should be the same top line as mt.cgi),
You didn't chmod the mt-xmlrpc.cgi file to 755, or
You don't have SOAP::Lite installed on your server. Visit mt-check.cgi in your install to see if you have all the modules you need.

I've checked and double-checked the first four in the list. I finally went to mt-check.cgi to see if I had SOAP::Lite installed. I didn't. So... I went to my host and they installed it.

I ran mt-check.cgi again and it's still telling me that SOAP::Lite is not installed. My host has sworn that it is, and it is SOAP:Lite 6.

I can run the flickr thing on another of my mt-enabled blogs on another server, hosted by the same company. BOTH of my blogs are running MT3.

What could be going wrong here? Could it be the version of Soap::Lite that is different on different servers? Could that by why neither MT3 or Flickr recognise it as installed on my first one?

I've been tearing my hair out over this for the last two weeks!

I REALLY wish that MT had a capacity of email to blog. sad.gif
Tomasahl
Hello.
The entry I am responding to is over a year old, but the problem is also occuring for me.
I have a FlickR account that worked with no problem before I installed MT3.2. That is - on my old 3.17-installation it worked.
So I tried to use the API-key that is mentioned on MT-homepage that they say is required nowadays. No change.
I get the same errors as the poster above. And the only change is that I upgraded to 3.2 .
Strange ...
lisa
If you know what your mt.cgi URL is, all you need to do is change mt.cgi to mt-xmlrpc.cgi. Then check your server to make sure that mt-xmlrpc.cgi is set to 755 so the script can run.

If you're still having problems, please post a link to your mt-check.cgi. smile.gif
Twinmama
I am having the same problem. I've checked everything ten times and nothing works...
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