Movable Type Appliance

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Professional Publishing Platform

Movable Type is a content publishing system developed by Six Apart, which includes support for multiple weblogs, landing pages, categories and sub-categories, tags, and an integrated file manager. Movable Type optionally supports LDAP for user and group management and automatic blog provisioning.

Current version: 2009.10-2 (changelog)

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • SSL support out of the box.
  • PHPMyAdmin administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
  • Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
  • Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP, MySQL and Postfix.
  • Includes TurnKey web control panel (convenience).
  • Movable Type configurations:
    • Includes backup/restore support functionality.
    • Includes core plugins: cloner, markdown, multiblog, spamlookup, stylecatcher, textile, wxrimporter, typepadantispam
    • Automatically install security updates directly from Debian stable (security).

Default credentials:

  • Webmin, Webshell, SSH, MySQL: username root, no password
    • user sets password during installation