Installing Movable Type 4 (beta) in OSX

It's very easy to install MT4 (beta 1) in OSX 10.4.

1. Download MT.

2. Deploy MT files

$ mkdir -p ~/Sites/mt4/cgi-bin/
$ mkdir ~/Sites/mt4/static/
$ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mt4/cgi-bin/
$ chmod 777 ~/Sites/mt4/static/
$ tar xvzf mt-xxxxx.tar.gz

3. Install MySQL

4. Configure MySQL

$ mysql mysql
mysql> CREATE DATABASE 'mt4db';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 'mt4user'@'locahost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mt4password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES

4. Install CPAN modules

$ sudo perl -MCPAN -eshell
> install DBI
> install DBD::mysql

5. Configure Apache

- Activate it in System Preferences > Share > Share web
- Edit /etc/httpd/users/(my user).cfg
- Add this code using vim:

<Directory "/Users/<your OSX user>/Sites/mt4/cgi-bin">
        Options ExecCGI
        AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi
</Directory>

6. Restart Apache

$ sudo apachectl restart

7. Start MT4 install proccess

- Go to http://localhost/~<your OSX user>/mt4/
- There you are!
- Select MySQL as default database
- Type the correct MySQL settings (database, user and password)
- Use sendmail for email
- Create your personal account
- When the install proccess is over, fix the cgi permissions

$ chmod 755 ~/Sites/mt4/cgi-bin/

That's all folks!

Comments

[Andrew]

can you link to the MySQL file, I can't seem to find it.

[Víctor R. Ruiz]

Sorry, which MySQL file?

[andrew]

Sorry, I found it right after I posted this.

[Christopher MacMinn]

Thanks for this! The available document for MT -- especially MT4 -- is pretty bad.

Um, I think you're missing a step or two. Where do the downloaded MT files go once I run tar on the archive?

Also, how are things different if I want to use SQLite instead of MySQL?

[Víctor R. Ruiz]

Christopher: Yes, the document is a bit short, it's only a quick guide. The tar file can be downloaded everywhere, i.e.:

$ cd ~/Site/

$ tar xvzf ~/Desktop/mt-xxxxx.tar.gz

If SQLite is used, MT automatically creates a ./db/ directory to store the database file, a bit easier than using MySQL. DBD::sqlite must be installed.

[Matthew]

I'm having a lot of errors installing the CPAN modules. What could be causing this?

[rvr]

Matthew: Which errors?

[Matthew]

Cannot find the file 'mysql_config'! Your execution PATH doesn't seem
not contain the path to mysql_config. Resorting to guessed values!
Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 466.

[rvr]

I installed mysql on /usr/local/mysql/ and inside that directory, ./bin/mysql_config is found. Check whether that's your case and add /usr/local/mysql/bin to your PATH variable.