Poking further I’ve found I didn’t have archive mappings post MT upgrade and have created them.
And I re-undid their silly default file permissions.
I see they’ve changed from using underscores to dashes for multiword files/directories. So there’s a bunch of old underscore named content that’s been regenerated with dash named content. Seems like yet another pointlessly annoying change. I supposed if I delete my old ones I possibly break old links and need to tell apache to do some url rewriting.
On the bright side I figured out that the missing photo thumbnailing was my part…somehow I lost something I needed and it wasn’t MT being brain damaged as I assumed.
And I am starting to find the info I need in the MT documentation as I stumble through problems and am starting to understand how MT is meant to work. I still think they need a better set of initial user documentation that describes the big picture and how different pieces parts of the system are meant to work together.
I still have template and archive and asset tinkering to do, but am making progress.
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Does MT4 let you work with both https:// and http:// at the same time? I’ve had to set my site URL to http:// but that means if I try to log into the admin pages over SSL, it’ll build some of its own URLs using http:// and kick me out of my encrypted login session. Very annoying.
I kind of wish MT was a little more like WordPress in its generated file name stuff. I think WP generates fake URLs, because it will dynamically create the page, but if you actually create a real page there, then it uses the static content. When I switched from .html to .php, I had to add a RewriteRule. Seems like something which is so auto-generated should try to generate URLs that do not include meaning in them. e.g. no http:// or https:// prefix or suffixes that really mean anything (although I suppose that’s the deal if you only deal with static files).
MT4 seems to be working for me in both https:// and http://. I’ve told it to do everything http:// though and just have management bits server rewritten for me to https, as I’m mostly trying to make the login somewhat more secure. But it does seem to stick with whichever mode I’ve arrived in. I think…