I decided to test Movable Type’s free, unsupported, version today (I am having a heck of time getting my photoblog to work the way I want it to in WordPress).

I quickly ran into problems and was about to abandon the process of installing Movable Type until I saw an error directly attributed to my web host. You know you are in trouble when your host has a specific mention in the support forum of a widely used blogging platform. To make matters worse, the solution that Six Apart offers doesn’t seem to solve the problem.

So, if you are trying to install Movable Type on a GoDaddy server, it will not work unless you implement this solution. DO NOT CALL GoDaddy. They know and they do not care. The web is filled with commentary about this specific problem and stories from scores of folks who wasted their time on hold with GoDaddy only to get “technical help” in the form of a canned “not our problem” response.

I hope you find this post, and do not have to waste all of the time that I did today.