Movable Type User Manual: ALTERNATE ENVIRONMENTS

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ALTERNATE ENVIRONMENTS

mod_perl

Movable Type can run under mod_perl in either Registry mode or as a set of full-fledged handlers. NOTE that in order to run under mod_perl, you must have Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie installed; these modules comprise the libapreq distribution, which can be downloaded from here:

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/cpan/cpan-libapreq.tar.gz

Setting up MT under Registry is just like setting up any other CGI script under Registry; add the following to your httpd.conf:

PerlModule Apache::Registry
<Location /path/to/mt>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>

You will need to host your docs, images, styles.css, and mt.js files in another directory outside of /path/to/mt, just as if you had placed MT into the cgi-bin. See Troubleshooting for more details.

If you want even more speed, consider running Movable Type to run as a mod_perl handler. You will need to set up two handlers: one for the main application, and one for your front-end comments.

1. Install Movable Type normally, and run mt-load.cgi to initialize the databases.

2. Set up your images, docs, styles.css, mt.js in a web-accessible directory not under /mt/. See Troubleshooting for more details.

3. Add the following to your httpd.conf:

   <Perl>
   use lib '/path/to/mt/lib';
   use lib '/path/to/mt/extlib';
   </Perl>
   PerlModule MT::App::CMS
   <Location /mt/app>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler MT::App::CMS
   PerlSetVar MTConfig /path/to/mt.cfg
   </Location>
   PerlModule MT::App::Comments
   <Location /mt/comments>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler MT::App::Comments
   PerlSetVar MTConfig /path/to/mt.cfg
   </Location>
   PerlModule MT::App::Trackback
   <Location /mt/trackback>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler MT::App::Trackback
   PerlSetVar MTConfig /path/to/mt.cfg
   </Location>
   PerlModule MT::App::Search
   <Location /mt/search>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler MT::App::Search
   PerlSetVar MTConfig /path/to/mt.cfg
   </Location>
   PerlModule Apache::XMLRPC::Lite
   PerlModule MT::XMLRPCServer
   <Location /mt/xmlrpc>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlHandler Apache::XMLRPC::Lite
   PerlSetVar dispatch_to "blogger, metaWeblog, mt"
   PerlSetVar MTConfig /path/to/mt.cfg
   </Location>
   

   Note that, as an alternate to the use lib statement above, you could also use

   PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB /path/to/mt/lib
   

4. In your mt.cfg file, you will need to use the following settings:

   DataSource /path/to/db
   CGIPath http://my.server.com/mt/
   StaticWebPath /mt-static/
   AdminScript app
   CommentScript comments
   TrackbackScript trackback
   SearchScript search
   XMLRPCScript xmlrpc
   

   StaticWebPath should correspond to the URI you set when setting up your images, docs, styles.css, and mt.js (in Step 1).