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List:       mtos-dev
Subject:    [MTOS-dev] MT 4.1 newbie - questions and wishlist
From:       Toni Mueller <support () oeko ! net>
Date:       2008-04-21 10:16:08
Message-ID: 20080421101608.11066.qmail () oak ! oeko ! net
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Hi,

[ it would be _great_ if mailing list subscription could be fixed -
  seems quite broken atm, and I also don't receive messages from
  the ML, yet :-( ]

I'm quite new to MovableType, but have some questions and wishes
nonetheless.

The questions, in no particular order:

 * Easy-to-follow/comprehensive guidelines (and code?) for installing
   MT ("latest") as an external FastCGI application (I prefer nginx
   as a webserver).

   I went far and wide across the Web to find a method to deploy MT as
   an external FastCGI application together with nginx, encountering
   things like the MT-Dispatch plugin, or the script from the nginx
   wiki (http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxSimpleCGI) or some script
   derived thereof, but couldn't really get it to fly, on a Debian
   machine where Dominic's packages worked like a charm, albeit as
   standard CGIs under Apache. The best I could arrive at was an
   endless spinning "Upgrading..." dialogue that spew some parts
   of a JavaScript file across a small box in the middle while
   doing nothing to the database, and never finishing, either. But that
   was only a testing machine.

   On a different machine (production, OpenBSD 4.2/i386), I was unable
   to run any of these scripts, and tried to resort to running MT as
   an internal FastCGI application under lighttpd (blech), but got
   stuck at the "/mt-static" problem while using the dispatch.cgi
   script, to be found on the web.

   Now I'm almost coerced to run MT as a normal CGI application under
   Apache (1.x), but fixing this is a _high_ priority for me, and
   likely crucial to the deployment of the platform in the first place,
   esp. as I generally have less than stellar results running FastCGI
   apps under Apache, or with Apache in general.

 * Improved diagnostics - I got stuck at the wizard stumbling over
   "/mt-static", but could not find out what it was actually
   looking for, except that it was looking for an image in /mt-static
   which was actually located in /mt-static/images (but it did find all
   other stuff in /mt-static that I became aware of).

 * Clear separation between anonymous user URLs, and URLs for
   authenticated users. I prefer to force the latter to require SSL,
   but leave mere visitors in the open. I don't know how this could be
   achieved, and/or whether it is already possible, but then, I didn't
   yet get far enough to find out.

 * (Maybe) Having a MT "server" in the same way like eg. an Interchange
   server, to run multiple blogs off that server (would complement
   the first item). See above for disclaimers.

 * "Compatibility" with standard, OS supplied, modules, if possible
   (and/or a description why it isn't).

 * A test suite (?)/ "use strict" etc. everywhere.


Any help is greatly appreciated!



Kind regards,
--Toni++

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