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Enabling Dynamic Publishing
Byrne Reese at 2006-10-11 19:14:05.
Movable Type can be configured on a per-blog basis to publish files either statically or dynamically. In order to publish dynamically, you must have PHP installed on your server. Additionally, PHP must be compiled with support for your selected database. If using Apache, Movable Types dynamic publishing feature prefers the use of the mod_rewrite module to support this feature.
The dynamic publishing engine works by leveraging the web server's ability to respond to the absence of a requested page. In the case of the Apache webserver, this is done either via mod_rewrite or a custom error document directive located in the .htaccess file. In the case of Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), it is done using a custom error document for the weblog's directory.
To enable dynamic publishing
Navigate to the Main Menu for your individual blog, or any administrative screen where your blogs left hand navigation bar appears.
Click the SETTINGS link found in the Configure section of the sidebar navigation menu. This will open the General Settings configuration screen for your blog.
Click the Publishing tab to access the publishing settings screen and scroll down the page to locate the Dynamic Publishing setting in the Publishing Preferences section.
Click the appropriate radio button to select either Build Only Archive Templates Dynamically or Set each templates build options separately. Selecting Build Only Archive Templates Dynamically enables dynamic publishing by default for all archive templates, where as choosing to Set each templates build options separately requires that you access each desired template individually to set it to publish dynamically.
With your publishing option selected, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click the Save button.
Once your changes are saved, you will be prompted to rebuild your site, as dynamic publishing will not take place until a complete rebuild is performed.
WARNING: If you choose to individually select templates for dynamic publishing, note that all templates except for the Dynamic Site Bootstrapper (mtview.php) can be dynamically generated. If this template if configured to be rendered dynamically, the dynamic publishing system will not work.
Byrne Reese at 2006-10-11 19:14:05.
