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StaticFilePath

This is documentation about a configuration directive, which can be placed within Movable Type’s core configuration file, mt-config.cgi, to customize the behavior of the system.

The absolute file system path to the mt-static directory.

This value corresponds to the absolute URL path or fully-qualified domain name URL specified in StaticWebPath.

Tip: If not configured, it is assumed that the mt-static directory is located in the application directory. Thus the StaticFilePath directive is only required if the mt-static directory has been moved out of the Movable Type application directory.

Note that the StaticFilePath should not point to your blog, and Movable Type should not be installed in the same location you want your blog to appear. For organization and clean functionality, Movable Type should be installed in its own folder; your blog can be set up anywhere outside of this folder.

Values

Filesystem path. Default is to assume that filepath is the value of CGIPath + “mt-static/”

Example

If the application directory is located at:

URL:        http://example.com/cgi-bin/mt/
Filepath:   /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/

…and static files cannot be served from the cgi-bin directory, then you have two choices:

  1. Alias http://example.com/mt-static/ to /var/www/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/ via symlink, Apache alias, etc.

    Because the mt-static directory is still in the application directory there is no need to use the StaticFilePath config directive. The mt-config.cgi file would look like this:

    CGIPath         http://example.com/cgi-bin/mt/
StaticWebPath   http://example.com/mt-static/

  2. Move the mt-static directory to the web root directory:

    /var/www/html/mt-static/

    and then set the StaticFilePath config directive to this location:

    StaticFilePath /var/www/html/mt-static/

    The following three path settings would then be in the mt-config.cgi file:

    CGIPath         http://example.com/cgi-bin/mt/
StaticWebPath   http://example.com/mt-static/
StaticFilePath  /var/www/html/mt-static/
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