Since 2008, Debian has had a movabletype-opensource package available in the repository. That’s good news for people who like to make short work of system administration. Unfortunately, the package in the repository isn’t the very latest and greatest. Even so, there are big benefits to using aptitude to install movable type, the main one being that it automatically installs all the various dependencies and offloads your job (maintaining those packages) to someone else. Plus the file locations are well-thought-out. Rather than throwing everything right into the web root the package maintainer put the cgi files into a common cgi-bin folder, the shared files into /usr/shared, the perl modules into the shared perl library, and the configuration files into /etc.
Because I imagine I’ll be upgrading my install of MT from time to time, I wrote this script so I can be even more lazy in the future, and I’ll put it here in case anyone else wants to use it. It’s only been tested on a brand new Ubuntu 8.10 install and the MTOS-4.23-en.zip package.
To use this script simply download your MT package and test it like this:
bash upgrade-mt.sh --test MTOS-4.23-en.zip
after you double-check all them commands it’s going to run, run it without –test.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $1 == "--test" ]
then
TEST="echo "
echo "This script will run the following commands when run without --test:"
echo ""
MT_PACKAGE_ZIP=$2
else
MT_PACKAGE_ZIP=$1
fi
MT_PACKAGE_ZIP=$1
MT_PACKAGE=${MT_PACKAGE_ZIP/.zip//}
# Environment settings, change them if necessary
PERL_LIB=/usr/share/perl5/
MT_COMMON=/usr/share/movabletype/
MT_CGI=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/movabletype/
echo "Unzipping package:"
$TEST unzip $MT_PACKAGE_ZIP
echo ""
echo "Installing shared perl modules:"
# Install shared perl modules
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}lib/* $PERL_LIB
echo ""
echo "Installing MT common files:"
# Install MT common files and the mt-static folder
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}default_templates/ ${MT_COMMON}
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}extlib/ ${MT_COMMON}
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}plugins/ ${MT_COMMON}
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}search_templates/ ${MT_COMMON}
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}tmpl/ ${MT_COMMON}
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}tools/ ${MT_COMMON}
echo ""
echo "Setting up mt-static folder"
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}mt-static/ ${MT_COMMON}
echo ""
echo "Installing CGI files"
# Install MT cgi files, making sure to keep the old mt.cgi with the correct path to the MT modules
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_CGI}mt.cgi $MT_PACKAGE
$TEST cp -r -v ${MT_PACKAGE}*.cgi $MT_CGI
echo ""
echo "Cleaning up"
$TEST rm -R $MT_PACKAGE