Hello,

I just installed movable type as a blogging tool. I have been using Wordpress before, but I need to manage more than one blog and I heard nothing beats MT. So here I am with the following scenario:

I would like to install my blog to: rootdomain.com
I would like to create a blog as: myblog.com
and: mysecondblog.com

How can I do that? I am on a hosted platform and cannot get to apache conf as it is recommended here: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/e...stances-of.html

Nor do I want to have 1000 blogs. Just two. How can I do it?

thanks,
Attila

Hi,
You can install MT at rootdomain.com/mt, and create your blogs at rootdomain.com/blog1 and rootdomain.com/blog2. Then point myblog.com and myblog2.com at those folders. If your host has cPanel, you do this with addon domains.

Yes, I did exactly that. The problem is the blog url is considered rootdomain.com/blog1 so when you click on going to home page it goes out of the domain (every URL included is full url, not relative).

A solution I found was to create the blog at the url blog1.com and put in htaccess a rewrite for anything blog1.com/mt into rootdomain.com/mt. It works fine except user creation for comments and redirect to the original page.

I am little shocked that MT does not know what is Application URL and what is Published Blog URL. I mean these days everybody has n domains and all...

Anyhow, is there a way to make MT use relative url-s in links and all? That would be awesome. Let me know, please.

thanks,
Attila

This is really just a matter of setting the publishing path. You can set that to any path you like, including pointing at separate domains. The trick is that not all hosts allow you to publish to different domains, even if they're all in your account.

You should now be able to set your publishing path to blog1.com instaed of rootdomain.com/blog1 so MT uses that in full URLs.

Sorry for the late response I needed to get to the weekend to be able to retry. I just reinstalled everything as you suggested. I will use the real values this time as you might even could take a look at it. I did not before as I didn't wanted to look like I am self promoting my blog here. So apologies.
Anyhow, this is what I did:

/mypath_to_domain/htdocs/mt - MT files (both cgi and htdocs)
/mypath_to_domain/htdocs/returningnull (for my blog)

Then I installed MT (ran the configuration) from http://talabor.com/mt .
It went fine and installed everything. It asked me to create my blog which I did as:
SiteURL: http://returningnull.talabor.com
Publishing path: /mypath_to_domain/htdocs/returningnull

Then went ahead and published the default blog.
Now if I go to http://returningnull.talabor.com all I get is a broken site. Reason being that the included styles.css

<link type="text/css" href="http://returningnull.talabor.com/styles.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

looks like:

@import url(http://returningnull.talabor.com/mt/mt-static/themes-base/blog.css);
@import url(http://returningnull.talabor.com/mt/mt-static/themes/minimalist-red/screen.css);

Which obviously does not resolve.
I also am unable to sign in to leave a comment. Clicking the link will just hang.

So what can I do?

thank you for your time and help,
Attila

I also found out the reason the sign in hangs. The js tries to load: http://returningnull.talabor.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi which again is broken as it should be http://talabor.com/mg/mt-comments.cgi

So what can I do to tell MT the AppUrl is different from the blog url?

thanks,
Attila

Dear Attila,

Servus! Your issue is quite simple...

You've wrongly declared the 'Static Web Path' directive inside mt-config.cgi

Just replace '/mt/mt-static' with 'http://talabor.com/mt/mt-static'

N.B.

Make sure the directive is:

StaticWebPath http://talabor.com/mt/mt-static

(without any other '/' at the end)

Happy blogging mate!

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

Yuppee. Multam, multam.

Ok, my site is almost there. The links and everything works fine, however the comment sign-in in, still doesn't.
It still tries to link to http://returningnull.talabor.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi instead of http://talabor.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi.

Any idea how can I fix that?

thanks for your help,
Attila

I managed to load a wordpress blog to my host account and it
has the same name as my MAIN Domain..

so as an example it looks like this..

so its www.maindomain.com/blog

I also have a few other dormain names on my same host account,

eg www.domain2.com ........ www.domain3.com etc

I then tried to create a word press blog for another website dormain 2

I managed it, BUT the 2nd new Domain didnt read as I want

Wordpress is for only one blog. They have an extension to handle multiple blogs: http://mu.wordpress.org/

Otherwise you need to install a wordpress on each domain. where you need to set your domains to point to different directories and load each wordpress there with their own db.

Also: this is a Movable Type forum not Wordpress. You should try Wordpress forums for this. You might get better answers.

Attila

If somebody would be just as blind as I was here is an update (no it didn't take me this long to figure it out. I just had time again to look at this blog of mine.)
Anyhow, in the same config there is another variable - suprise suprise - called CGIPath. Duhh.

Anyhow, happy blogging is ON.
thanks for everybody's help.
Attila