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theharmonyguy
12-09-2004, 04:55 AM
Wow, I haven't been on the forum in a long time . . .

Just wanted to ask about something. MovableType is one of the most popular blog systems around the Net. People have set it up successfully on Windows servers (including myself) - it's Perl.

The distribution kindly includes a script to check if your server can handle MT. I just ran it and a few Perl modules were missing. I would think these would not be hard to install. Here's the list:

HTML::Template (version >=2) (Required for MT to work at all)
Image::Size
Image::Magick
Crypt::DSA
XML::Atom

Some of these, such as HTML::Template and Image::Size, appear to be self-installable (http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtinstall.html#required/optional%20module%20installation%20steps). But this isn't true of all of them. All are freely available at CPAN (www.cpan.org), however.

What are the chances DASP would add these few modules to their servers? :) Doing so would allow DASP users to setup MovableType and blog away! I know there are ASP blogs, but personally I've never seen one that matched MT imho.

So anyway, just a simple request. Please consider it, having MT would be great!

bruce
12-09-2004, 07:39 AM
Welcome back.

I'll forward your question to our SA.

Bruce

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET (http://www.DiscountASP.NET)

Danny
12-11-2004, 01:07 AM
DiscountASP support all the required modules for MovableType, the only modules missing are Image::Magick (needed only for creating thumbnails of uploaded images) and Crypt::DSA (for comment registration sign-ins acceleration). These 2 are both optional and will not affectthe installation.

Danny




Post Edited (Danny) : 12/11/2004 1:41:28 AM GMT

theharmonyguy
12-11-2004, 03:31 AM
Um, my listing came straight from an mt-check.cgi run on my DASP server. HTML::Template was not installed and this is absolutely required for installation. The others are for extra features but they'd be really nice, and mt-check.cgi also showed them not installed. Still, at minimum HTML::Template is needed and mt-check.cgi did not find it. (I'm working with MT 3.1 btw.)

I'll forward your question to our SA.
Thanks so much!

shivkumarc
03-17-2006, 06:45 AM
Can someone list the steps you use to install movabletype on discountasp.net.

Thanks,