Mediawiki and Movable Type installation
So, in order to briefly distract myself from what I can only assume is epic depression, I decided to install Mediawiki and Movable Type to expand my interweb knowledges.
Mediawiki is a lot like WordPress, so that went easily. Haven’t gotten to customizing it yet, but doesn’t look difficult. Made the directory, started the upload, created the database and a db user for it, set execute permissions for the config directory, ran the install script, followed directions, all very easy.
Movable type struck me as flawed from the getgo. I don’t care for web installs that rely on the cgi bin, and MT is all about the cgi bin. To me, this indicates an approach from older web standards. Also, while not as bad as the majority of blog packages I’ve seen, there seem to be a lot of files for the relatively simple task it’s approaching. Anyway, aside from somewhat less pleasing install documentation, it went rather smoothly.
Later I’ll actually try them out and comment on their functionality.