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cleo
I am having a problem with the instructions, I was hoping someone would answer it  here.

I am installing MT on my own linux box and the directory structure is the following

/var/www/html/mt
(mt is the movable type directory)

Now my cgi bin path is
/var/www/cgi-bin/

Exactly where do I put the files mt*.cgi
How do I execute the mt*.cgi files when if i put them in the cgi bin its outside the path of /var/www/html/mt

I did set the permissions correctly and am trying everything to get this up and running properly.

Note I am using the mysql backend and I have installed the mysql and set the permissions and passwords correctly in the mt.cfg etc files.

Can someone please tell me the exact directory structure I would need to get it workign from the above example. Either the instructions are a bit unclear or im an idiot (more likely the latter) but I would like to get it resolved if possible.

Right now I am running as localhost, so thats what i used in the path when asked for a http://www.yoursite.com

Thank you
cleo
Additional info

When i put all the *.cgi files in /var/www/html/mt/*.cgi

and I try to run
http://localhost/mt/mt-check.cgi it says

You don't have permission to access /mt/mt-check.cgi on this server

This happens if im root on the server or if I'm a regular user. I do not know if that helps or not.
cleo
Ok i found the problem you need to specify the commonhttpd.conf exec stuff.

Now for some reason I get this error after getting movable type to create a new blog

Writing to '/var/www/html/mt/archives/000001.html' failed: Opening local file '/var/www/html/mt/archives/000001.html' failed: Permission denied

What do the permissions have to be on /archives ?
btrott
They should be 777
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