Template Problem Solved
I've been fighting with this Movable Type installation for over a week attempting to apply custom templates to two new blogs I am working on. I'm using MT4 on this site and their documentation for this version is less than exemplary. It is also too new for any published books, Six Apart says they are still a few months away.
I finally had a breakthrough this evening and of course the solution was a /facepalm moment. It had to do with the way I was referring to the URL of the sites due to having the other two domains as addons to this one. I have mbenton.com registered with HostMonster as my main account along with user40-0.com as an addon. This means my home for mbenton.com is .../public_html/ and home for user40-0.com is .../public_html/user40-0/. MT4 asks for a URL and a home directory when creating a blog. For user40-0.com I was responding with the correct home directory but was using a URL of http://www.user40-0.com. That would create the blog but not apply any templates. The correct repsonse to the URL question was http://www.marcbenton.com/user40-0/. Now it works as advertised. Too bad this isn't documented anywhere that I could find.
Hopefully this might help someone out.
I finally had a breakthrough this evening and of course the solution was a /facepalm moment. It had to do with the way I was referring to the URL of the sites due to having the other two domains as addons to this one. I have mbenton.com registered with HostMonster as my main account along with user40-0.com as an addon. This means my home for mbenton.com is .../public_html/ and home for user40-0.com is .../public_html/user40-0/. MT4 asks for a URL and a home directory when creating a blog. For user40-0.com I was responding with the correct home directory but was using a URL of http://www.user40-0.com. That would create the blog but not apply any templates. The correct repsonse to the URL question was http://www.marcbenton.com/user40-0/. Now it works as advertised. Too bad this isn't documented anywhere that I could find.
Hopefully this might help someone out.
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