Having successfully set up MoveableType, I chose the default instructions which tell you to set each of your weblog directories with permission 777 (basically, read/write/execute by anyone). This allow the web server (running as user ‘nobody’) to write files into your web file space, but could also be a security risk. Today I dug a little further and found that my site supports CGIwrap which forces the CGI process to run as you instead of as ‘nobody’. This let me set all of my directory permissions back to 755 (writable only by me). I had a little trouble changing ownership…
After almost 8 months of use with CityDesk, I’ve moved Cantoni.org over to Movable Type. CityDesk is great and I still use it for a couple of other sites, but there were a few limitations that I wanted to move past.
This is another reason I wanted to give Movable Type a try: the ability to post from other software applications. I’m posting this from w.bloggar which is a VB Windows app that can talk to Movable Type through its XML-RPC interface. Cool!
My experiment with Movable Type is going well, so now I’m preparing to change over from CityDesk. Here are a few things I’ve needed to change or tweak so far, just for my future reference: Turned on Individual, Monthly, and Category archives and tweaked their templates Changed references to each posting to be a permalink Removed the calendar from the main index page Changed the RSS feed templates as suggested on the RSS Validator site Changed the monthly archives to be stored by folder (e.g., 2002/12/index.html) Changed the category archives to be stored by folder (e.g., site/index.html). This will make…
There are a lot of choices for archiving the blog entries. By default it is capturing individual entries as well as by month. I’ve just turned on “archive daily”, so we’ll see how well that works. It’s also nice to see that the default RSS template creates a syndication feed that validates. Update 12/12: Now creating a valid RSS 2.0 feed.