I’ve just tried to get MovableType working on Uniform Server (using Mysql as the database) and it doesn’t work. The installation check routine fails because dbd::mysql is not installed and it needs the dbi module installed. This does not come with Uniform Server and is not going to be present until version 3.3 comes out (if then). This is a shame as I was hoping to try an installation of MT and import of my data to my local machine to test my backups and DR capabilities.
Plan B is to install MT over on my over hosting company but thats a project for another day as I’m sure my eyes are going all funny now.
Mike had a question about rotating the apache logs under windows (with Uniform Server as he was struggling to get it to work. Looking at google and various other locations it seems to be a common problem but very few people had the solution (or the whole solution).
What I found that is if you edit the httpd.conf stored in the usr\local\Apache2\conf directory and add the 2 lines
#rotate logs set here
CustomLog “|w:/usr/local/apache2/bin/rotatelogs.exe w:/usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log 86400” common
just before the <directory /> section then the logs will get rotated every day. Change the 86400 to 61 for once a minute (61 secs to be precise) to test it first.
The .exe on the end of rotatelogs is important (and that seems to be the bit missing from every other page) and naturally the logs directory and the path to rotatelogs.exe needs to exist. The files will start access_log and will have the date and time stamp at the end of the filename.
I include the line starting with a # as a comment but this line is not strictly needed. You will need to stop and start apache for this change to take effect. If any of the paths are incorrect, you will probably find that the welcome page for the web server appears but no other pages on the website will work. If that is the case, then check your path statements to the exe file and to the log directory.
One disadvantage of this is that the rotatelogs.exe file fires up in a dos box (on my machine) but this can be minimised out of harms way but it would be nice to not have this on the machine. I think running apache as a service might solve this problem, but the advantage of uniform server is that the whole thing can be run from a removable disk with no installation required.
I think I may have solved my reading list problem I mentioned earlier. By downloading and installing Open Media Lending Database into my Uniform server installation I now have a mini library system which even allows me to check out items to friends etc.
Installation notes in the extended entry.
Following on from my earlier install of Uniform Server, I thought I’d check to see that wordpress can be installed on the server (which it can).
Extended entry has my dummies guide to installing on Uniform which is not much different to the installation at Installing WordPress official site but may help someone.