Ok, sorry in advance for the lengthy post.

I have been trying to get the "Stop Design Photo Gallery Plugin for Movable Type 4.1" to work, couldn't, so then tried to install and use the Plugin Manager to install the Gallery, but I can't get that to work either.

Also, all I'm trying to do is get a Photo Gallery to work on MT 4.1. If someone can suggest something that works, I'm all ears.


Here are more details about my current conundrum:

I'm running MT 4.1, and I wanted to try the "Stop Design Photo Gallery Plugin for Movable Type 4.1". I have been using MT for three years now, host my own server, and am very familiar with Linux and MT, however I get very confused during section 4 of the instructions:

"# Upload Upload the files you extracted to your MT installation keeping the same folder structure. That's really not as hard as it sounds. It simply means that the 'PhotoGallery' folder and all it's contents in the 'mt-static' folder of the archive goes into the 'mt-static' folder of your Movable Type installation and that the 'PhotoGallery' folder and all it's contents in the 'plugins' folder of the archive goes into the 'plugins' folder of your Movable Type installation. Two drag and drop operations in your FTP client and you're done."

I'm not sure whether the instructions mean folders in var/www/cgi-bin or folders in var/www/html/public_html/mt-static

The archive I downloaded had a mt-static/ dir, but in it was a plugins/ dir, not a PhotoGallery/ dir... Am I missing something? So am I to copy-overwrite the existing plugins/ dir in /var/www/html/public_html/mt-static/?

Anyway, I wasn't sure how to do the manual install so I thought I would install the Plugin Manager to install the Photo Gallery, as it sounds easier that way. Well, the Plugin Manager install didn't go well either. I used CPAN to get the required Perl modules installed, and then changed perms on dirs to get it to install, but when I log into MT and chose to run the Plugin Manager, it showed a "Sanity Check" button, which I assumed meant something was wrong. So I clicked the button and it shows all the Perl modules are installed, and everything looks fine except:

* ? Template directory (/var/www/cgi-bin/mt/tmpl) is writable.
* ? Alt-Template directory (/var/www/cgi-bin/mt/alt-tmpl/cms) is writable.
* ? Plugin directory (/var/www/cgi-bin/mt/plugins) is writable.
* ? Static files directory (/plugins) is not writable.

So I thought perhaps my settings in /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/mt-config.cgi might be wrong, but if they were, then MT wouldn't work at all, right?


Here is the settings from mt-config.cgi:
CGIPath /cgi-bin/mt/
StaticWebPath /mt-static/
StaticFilePath /var/www/html/public_html/mt-static


Here is the perms from the plugins dir in /var/www/html/public_html/mt-static:
drwxrwxr-x 6 apache apache 4096 Jun 4 17:27 plugins


Here are the perms of the contents of the plugins/ dir:
drwxrwxr-x 8 apache apache 4096 Jun 4 15:09 PhotoGallery
drwxrwxr-x 5 apache apache 4096 Jun 4 17:28 PluginManager
drwxrwxr-x 3 apache apache 4096 Jan 24 10:58 StyleCatcher
drwxrwxr-x 5 apache apache 4096 Jan 24 10:58 WidgetManager


What am I missing to get the Plugin Manager to work?

Much thanks in advance.