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rweales

Jun 13 2008, 09:21 AM

I have recently tried installing three plugins without success:
The Plugin Manager, Curvaceous, and the Stop Design Photo Gallery.

I haven't been able to get any of them to work. All three have different issues, but it all appears to be a permissions problem.

What are the default settings for getting plug-ins to work?

This is MT 4.1 on FC6 running Apache 2.2.6.

I'm assuming the plugin dirs and their contents all need to be apache/apache?
What about perms? I keep getting errors about things not being writable or plugins that "Failed to load".

I have made several chmods to my plugins dirs/files but nothing seems to work?

Is 755 not good enough?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

ocwo92

Jun 14 2008, 10:56 PM

I may be able to help with Curvaceous, since I wrote that plug-in. Could you describe in detail what you have done in order to install the plug-in, way from the beginning when you downloaded the plug-in file from the plug-in's web site?

For a start, the MT/plugins directory should contain the following directory and files, with the following permissions:

CODE

755 Sociotags/
    755 default_templates/
        644 config.yaml
        644 sociotags_styles.mtml
    755 lib/
        644 Sociotags.pm
    644 Sociotags.pl

This should suffice to enable Movable Type to recognize and configure the plug-in.

(Edit: the plug-in doesn't require TemplateInstaller, as I had incorrectly stated. In fact, it should run fine with most MT installations, assuming that Image::Magick is available.)

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