Kicking Up Dust ...

[2010-07-04T19:13Z cross-posted from Spanner Wingnut to have a consolidated history of the initial migration to Movable Type.  The problem here was corrected by aliasing the cgi-bin/mt/ and mt-static/ into orcmid.com and that seems to do the trick.]

The first effort to inject a Movable Type blog atop the old Spanner Wingnut blog was not entirely successful:

• I did succeed in getting the blog to publish.
   
• I failed to have the blog format properly, as if it couldn't find the template and CSS information - I got a raw HTML form of the blog post (see below).
     
• The MT 4 image and any references to mt-static/ were to orcmid.com/mt-static/ and not the common location that I have established for the blog engine to use for all blogs operated on this single web hosting account.
     
• The Trackback, Search, and other URLs were to a cig-bin/mt/ also in orcmid.com/ and there was, of course nothing there.

I now have improved on that by editing the mt-config.cgi file to establish absolute locations for the mt-static/ and the cgi-bin/mt/ to be used for all functions. 

There are still some problems.  I have been unsuccessful signing in to leave comments on Spanner Wingnut, for example.  I will need to make some simple tests to see what is and is not working.

Meanwhile, here is what my first effort appeared as: