It's been some 56 hours since I first started, in my innocent youth, to upload and configure MT. After fussing and niggling over this and that half-understood setting, all seemed well.
All but the Search function.
Internal Server Error. I think those words may have been burned onto my monitor screen, I saw them so often. I loaded files. I re-loaded files. Individually and lovingly pushing them through Fetch and making sure they went up as ascii.
No go. I loaded them using the command line, over and over. I started reading the damn things, and then adding little 'print' statements to mt-search.cgi to see if I could catch it falling off its berm and into a pond somewhere. No clues emerged. Though I fairly often trashed my config completely ("cgi? on this system? M'mselle, you have been misinformed.")
I downloaded another fresh copy from the nice MT people and proceeded to load it locally. Ran into a smallish hitch: Mac OS X's implementation of Apache does not include httpd being configured straight away to allow all cgi scripts to run from user directories. I suppose that's a security feature, but it took me another three hours, since I know sod all about httpd.conf, to translate the fix from MT's troubleshooting section to living reality on my Mac. Darn near brought my local system into utter and non-transient disarray. ("network services? on this computer? M'mselle, they are all indisposed, so very sorry.")
But when all was said and done, the local set-up ran like a charm. And Search worked, just like it's supposed to.
Back to da Big UNIX Box, and a complete reload once more, no go. No Search. Tried replacing db files. No log in. Restored db files, logged in and out, and walked off to get a box of matches.
What I've got right here and now, is complete makeover. The old files, ever' last one, have been sent to the bitbucket. These are new.
I go now, to once again attempt a Search.
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Still doesn’t work. Bleh.