Movable Type 4.01

A out-of-the-box instance of everything you need to test the latest Movable Type 4.0 Release Candidate. Everything has been installed and configured including FastCGI and a local copy of memcached. Just run it and go. Great for experimentation and review. Also includes ddclient for dynamic domain name services.

Movable Type is the platform that invented professional-grade blogging, powering the biggest and most successful blogs for pro bloggers, publishers, organizations, enterprises and businesses of any size.

Recently Six Apart released MT 4, a complete overhaul of the system with more than 50 new features. Further the company has announced plans to open source the tool under the GPL.

This instance has been created as a quick and easy means of getting a MT4 system going quick to review and experiment with.

This instance is based on Amazon's Fedora Core 4: Apache and MySQL AMI. I've setup and installed the latest beta from Six Apart in addition to gcc and most of the optional Perl modules MT uses. I've also installed FastCGI (mod_fcgid) and a local copy of memcached that will launch at start-up.

Once you've launched your instance you can log into MT by following this URL:

http://your.ec2.instance/cgi-bin/mt/mt.fcgi

user: Melody
password Nelson

You'll want to change this password right away.

CONFIGURATION

While this instance gives you a working MT system out of the box, there is one configuration set that you'll need to perform -- you'll need to adjust the URL of the default weblog to reflect the domain name or IP that has been assigned to your instance by EC2.

1. Login to MT
2. From the Dashboard (the screen you get after logging in)
3. Select Blog Settings from under the Preferences menu
4. The click "Publishing" in the left hand navigation
5. Change the Site URL field to reflect your EC2 instance domain name or IP
6. Click Save Changes at the bottom

This instance has ddclient installed for supporting dynamic domain name services. This will not launch without taking a few straight forward steps. See dynamicDNS.README in the root user directory for how to enable this.

SEE ALSO

http://www.movabletype.org/
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/
http://www.movabletype.org/beta/known_issues.html