My, what an interesting few hours it's been. We went live with MT4 circa 11am this morning. While, on the whole, its been plain sailing, a couple of issues have cropped up. We've been getting internal server errors in the user interface, which Nicholas has tracked down to issues with FastCGI and the mt.cgi script. Thus we've disabled FastCGi on the servers handling the posting interface, and are hoping that the problem will go away.We're also having to set up some URL rewriting to handle elements of the change from Windows to Linux that mean case-sensitivity in URLs is an issue.
Oh, and one of our bloggers has used the problems to make a point. Transparency's good, right?
May 17, 2008 10:23 PM | Reply
From the MT 4.1 Release Notes under Advisories:
"Due to a memory leak in Movable Type template parser, large scale web sites are advised not to use Publish Queue in daemon mode or FastCGI for the time being."
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes.html
If you really need/want to run MT now under FastCGI, use "Enzo" MT 4.14.
http://code.sixapart.com/svn/movabletype/branches/enzo/
This release is not an official supported version, but at least addresses the problem you are reporting. "Enzo" has a lot of the back end bug fixes that was developed for the next official release which is due out in a few weeks.
May 23, 2008 6:06 PM | Reply
Thanks for the pointers, Tim. Much appreciated.
We're taking a serious look at Enzo now, and may implement it, depending on when 4.15 hits the streets.