Another Way To Implement FastCGI Under MT3.33

I did another config today for the Fastcgi install for MT 3.33 by following the instructions in Mark De Soto's article. I had lots of errors in my server's error log that I hope this install will fix. Mark provided a new index.cgi that I created, and a few lines of code to add to the .htaccess, renaming the cgi files in the process, and it all seems to be working well. I had to rebuild all the blogs on my site for the changes to filter through.

Another thing I did tonight was set up Feedburner to manage the feeds on this site, after reading an article at SixApart about MT Performance Tuning. It required changing the links to the atom and rss indexes in the header of ALL my templates, and it took me quite a while, but I can now safely turn off the need to rebuild these pages every time my blogs rebuild. I'm doing nearly everything they suggest:

• Use FastCGI or mod_perl
• Run the latest version of Movable Type (nearly)
• Use an SQL database
• Eliminate unused or redundant archive maps (in some blogs)
• Reconsider redundant feeds
• Avoid wasteful rebuilds of index templates
• Avoid performance-killing plugins
• Avoid overuse of categories
• Use Mullet category archives (this weblog)
• Use the master archive index

The whole point of this preoccupation with getting FastCGI to work properly is to power-up MT and eliminate excessive server loads.

I have a few crontab jobs set up now and am able to schedule posts and do nightly rebuilds on a couple of the blogs. The shell commands aren't so daunting now, and I'm very adept at "Touch mt.fcgi" every time I need to configure a plugin.