Movable Type 4 installation notes

Installation
1. Uncompress movable type package, move mt-static folder to htdocs/
2. Modify mt-config.cgi, choose your prefered DBI and remove the other chunk of code, add

MailEncoding UTF-8

to mt-config.pl
3. Move all the other files to cgi-bin/mt/, assign executive right to cgi scripts
4. Access http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi

Theming
1. Modify the css file which can be located at static/themes-base/blog.css
2. Remove “powered by” widget
3. Modify template in admin page
4. To backup templates, every template should be linked with a local file, then you can modify the files on disk to customize looking.

Plugins
Comming soon

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