Here's the manuals overview on creating a new blog - and as you create it, there are little question marks that you can click in the fields

Go back to your blog config for this new blog.  I'd guess that one of your paths or URLs has the word "blog" in it.

If you need more help, post back and maybe someone else will have a good idea why its doing this!

Kristine

Each blog stands alone - you create a separate directory for each blog, and set the configuration for each blog to point to that blog's directory. Each blog's configuration has to be set up separately. It doesn't matter how many blogs you have; the configuration of one has little (if anything) to do with any of the others.

If one blog is being put into the other blog's directory, then there is something amiss in the paths you've set up in the second blog.

dvg--wow, thats the longest reply ever!!

1)no, I only have one mt.cgi installed.

2) bascially what I want is my main blog...then I want a blog where I can write little movie reviews, and have the categories be letters, so I can alphabetize the movies i review.
i would just do this with my main blog, but i dont want to clutter my main content with movie reviews all the time.

3) see #2 pretty much.

4) i must have been confusing you, cause your question was confusing hehe...i was sucessful in creating the new blog, but when i posted it over wrote my main blog and got all messed up (i backed it up so its fine now)but it was because I didnt know what I was doing obviously

5) it must be because i set it up wrong. my first blog posts fine.

6)thank God for this forum

7)yeah right now my main blog is /blog/index.html and I would like my new one to have its own directory...easy enough.

8)like i said, thank God for this forum.

anyways, what i would like is for my main blog to show posts only for that blog, but have a recent entries/additions on the sidebar like you do that would show recent posts for all my blogs. so people dont have to go to that individual blog to see if anything is new, they can just see from the main page.

i hope this helps. i have learned loads about movable type in the last week but still have a lot to learn...

thanks

dvg--

you gonna get back to me?? hehe

yeah so I want to add 2 blogs within my blog...one for movie reviews and one for music reviews....basically so i can secondary categorize within them alphabetically.....anyways....i tried to setup another one but when it was installed, it didn't go to the url i thought it would. for example, i thought i set it up to go to http://www.brenthellickson.com/movies but it showed up at http://www.brenthellickson.com/blog/movies and also when i posted a topic, it didnt show up. it would save and all, but wouldnt be seen on the blog. just wondering if there is a trick to installing more blogs. the MT manual is VAGUE to say the least.

thanks.

oh yeah, those url's wont work, so dont go there.

Well I know how to do the actual "creating" part, but for the config.....all I want to do is have the main index in a different directory than my other blog....my other blog is in the "blog" directory...so when I point my browser to that directory it will load the index for the new blog. The MT help file doesn't explain much beyond the how to create...it doesn't explain how to work with the config of two different blogs or anything...I mean come on.

Brent,
If you'll kindly answer the following questions, we should be able to help you with your problem.  There are quite a few of us who have multiple blogs running through MovableType, so I'm sure we'll have your answer(s).

1.  Have you installed two (or more) discrete instances of the MovableType content management system?  In other words: Do you actually have more than one copy of, for example, mt.cgi on your server?  (Hopefully your answer is, "No.")

2.  You said, "I want to add 2 blogs within my blog."  Can you explain this a bit?  My understanding of that statement is that you want a total of three blogs: "my blog" and two additional blogs.
- Do you want all three blogs to appear on the same page?  That would mean posts from all three would be in the same file.  If you view http://www.davidgagne.net/ you will see that it is a blog.  In the sidebar there is a collection called "the good stuff".  That is also a blog.  So there's an example of a blog within a blog.
- Do you want all three blogs to appear on separate pages?  That would mean all three blogs exist on your server, but posts from one are not visible on another.  If you view http://www.davidgagne.net/code/ you will see that it is also a blog on my davidgagne.net server, though it is distinct from my "main" blog on http://www.davidgagne.net/ .  So there's an example of two blogs on one system (my main blog and my code blog).  There are actually *ten* individual blogs on my davidgagne.net server.

3.  You said that you want these additional blogs so that you can "categorize within them alphabetically".  If it is any help to you, please note that in the latest release of MovableType (version 2.11) you have the option of sorting posts alphabetically by utlizing the sort_order attribute of the MTEntries tag.  Are you sure that you need these additional blogs to acheive your desired result?

4.  When you say you, "tried to setup another one," do you mean that you had one blog working, created another blog in the same MovableType system, and then you were unsuccessful on your *third* blog?  Or are you just saying that you were unsuccessful on your *second* blog?  Or, as I asked in question 1, did you try to set up an entirely new install of the MovableType system on your server?  We'll really need to know the answers to this main question before we can be sure we're providing you with good "group" support, but I'll make a guess that you have only *one* copy of MovableType installed.  If that is true, then were you certain that you created each blog in its own directory?
- You said that, "when it was installed, it didn't go to the url [you] thought it would."  Do you mean that when you clicked "View Site" you were taken to a different URL than the one you were expecting?  Do you mean that when you saved and rebuilt there was nothing in the directory to which you thought you saved?
- If you, "thought [you] set it up to go to http://www.brenthellickson.com/movies but it showed up at http://www.brenthellickson.com/blog/movies" then you definitely forgot to remove the "/blog" value from that blog's configuration screen.

5.  You said that when you posted a topic it didn't appear.  That could be for any number of reasons.  If you are unclear about where the directory is, that could be the simple explanation of why you don't see the post.  It could be that your template, css, or some other part of your basic HTML is not coded properly.  Someone would need much more information to help you decipher why a post isn't appearing.

6.  You say you are, "just wondering if there is a trick to installing more blogs."  I would have to say that there is no trick.  I was able to do so quite easily in even the earliest versions of MovableType.  I will be happy to help you, though, as I can see how displaying multiple blogs can be daunting to a new user.  The MovableType manuals are as clear as I think they can be about this topic.  For my own $.02 I might add that MovableType is a *free* piece of software (even though contributions are certainly appreciated).  The manuals are some of the best I've ever seen for free/shareware in all my experience with computers.

7.  You said that you want to "have the main index in a different directory than [your] other blog".  This is very easily accomplished by providing a unique (different) value for the "Local site path" and "Site URL" fields in the blog configuration screen of each blog.  If when you point your browser to your blog directory it is loading your original blog, and you are expecting it to load your *new* blog, it is simply because you have the same data in the "Local site path" field of both blog configuration screens.

8.  You said that the MovableType manuals do not explain much beyond how to create a new blog.  I don't think I need to point out that there are dozens of pages in the manuals covering a wide range of topics.  The help files most definitely *do* explain *much* more than how to create a new blog.  If you are saying that the instructions weren't specific in explaining that you need to provide discrete values for the "Local site path" field of different blogs then you are correct.  I'm guessing that the creators assumed that such information would be obvious.

Hopefully this reply will answer some of your questions.

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