Update: I spoke too soon. My initial fix did not work (see strike below. The fix that actually worked for me follows. –elb 2012-09-17 12:21:24
Adding subdomains to my new Movable Type 5 website screwed up the links to my css stylesheets.
The fix is easy and I think it will hold up over template changes and updates, but as an MT newbie it took me a while to track down.
First, my setup here on my site looks something like this:
carryingstones.com
blog.carryingstones.com
linked.carryingstones.com
In the template governing the html head, the links to the stylesheets were pointing to the relative domain. This worked fine at the root level, carryingstones.com, but broke when it moved to a subdomain (blog., and linked.).
Updating the styles.css at the root level seemed to fix my formatting problem. I changed from this:
@import url(/mt-static/themes-base/blog.css);
@import url(/mt-static/support/themes/professional-blue/professional-blue.css);
…to this:
@import url(https://carryingstones.com/mt-static/themes-base/blog.css);
@import url(https://carryingstones.com/mt-static/support/themes/professional-blue/professional-blue.css);
OK, I got it. I was on the right track but in the wrong place. It ended up being a huge MT rookie oversight that was quickly repaired by updating mt-config.cgi with urls instead of relative directory paths. Now, it looks like this:
StaticWebPath https://carryingstones.com/mt-static/
StaticFilePath https://carryingstones.com/home/carrying/public_html/mt-static
…and so far so good. I’ll let you know if I find anything else.