New Blog Server Nearly Ready

I did some work on a virtual machine to become my new blog server / mail server / web server / calendar server. The blogging part is working great now with the latest Movable Type on FreeBSD 6.0. Its pretty nice and it was easy to set up on FreeBSD. Most of the perl modules that were necessary for MT were available as FreeBSD packages, which can be downloaded and installed with a one-line command: “pkg_add -r packagename”. For the ones that weren’t available as packages, they were in the ports collection, and could be downloaded, configured, compiled and installed with a simple “make install”. The only thing that couldn’t be installed that way was an encryption module for perl, so I used cpan for that.

I also got the MT SCode plugin working so I can include those funky text images that you use to prevent comment spam, so I should be able to allow comments. That should be fun.