Well, that only took 29 days, but my blog has returned to the living!

Ok, so I’ve gone live with my first simplelog theme. This theme is, obviously, inspired directly by my new site layout.

I alread know that I’m not 100% satisfied, but seeing it in use should focus my attention better.

Stolen from here, mostly because its a publicly editable wiki. I had to edit the page and revert a bunch of spammed changes to find anything useful!

Setting up Ecto

1. If you get the account creation wizard the first time you run ecto, just click cancel and dismiss the following error.
2. Click “Add” in the Account Manager.
3. Enter your site’s URL when prompted. Example: http://myweblog.com
4. ecto will attempt to get information about your weblog, but you’ll need to clarify a few things when it’s done as such
   System Other (select API)
   API Movable Type
5. The Access Point should be the same thing as your URL, but add /xmlrpc/api. Example: http://myweblog.com/xmlrpc/api
6. Click ‘Next’ and then enter your username and password (the same info you use to log in to the SimpleLog admin section).
7. Enter anything for the Profile Name. ecto will get your blog information and then ask you a few questions. UNCHECK ALL BOXES and click ‘Next’. Click ‘Finish’ and ecto will get all of your entries.

If you are asked which mode you want to edit in by default, you should choose HTML. You can also set this via the Preferences.

You can now edit, delete and post from ecto!

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Continued from Part 1

The Godaddy Config (Step 3)

I created a database & user for the SimpleLog program, and FTP’d the program to a subfolder of my hosting root.

At this point, http://bustikated.net/mysimplelogdir/ was giving me Permission Denied errors & http://bustikated.net/mysimplelogdir/public/ was giving me Bad Request errors.

Using the phpMyAdmin db management on Godaddy’s server, I was able to modify the domain preference in the simplelog db. Trial and error later revealed that /public/ had to be present @ the end of the url, for now I just left it blank.

Also, I had to get the IP address of the server from phpMyAdmin (I couldn’t find a server name).

All of this fixed nothing

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Nothing to see here; just making sure all this crap works from my phone.

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I started off at the Simple Log homepage after about a minute and a half of googling Typo alternatives.

My Situation

Since Godaddy doesn’t offer SSH access on its shared hosting accounts, I had to manually configure my install locally, then upload everything. Your process should be similar if you’re also installing without SSH.

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