Movable Type Error Message

[phin]

When trying to run trackbacks on a fresh Movable Type Installation I'm receiving the following error message:

Got an error: Can't call method "path_info" on an undefined value at lib/MT/App.pm line 1200.

You can see the error by clicking on the Trackback link from this site: http://www.phins.us/thedonovan/

When I contacted some people at SixApart (Creators of MT) they said it was a problem with the host / server.

Any ideas what may be going on?

[Schelly]

Nice of them to be so specific with their advice... did they happen to tell you if App.pm (perl module) would be something you can ask your host to install for you? I'm not sure if that module is "supposed to be" installed with Perl or if it's a package or rpm that would be considered an add-on. Anybody?

Do you have a directory called "lib" in your script's folder? It may be somewhere in the vicinity of /mt/mt-admin or not... I don't know their script very well.

[phin]

That's the nice part about it.

The App.pm file is part of Movable Type.

I've been digging around. I'm stating to think it's a cop out, but don't know.
I've found information on some hosts blocking the Perl / php path_info methods, but this looks like a Sub Routine in MT's code.

[Schelly]

Maybe their community would give us more to go on if we ask really nicely. Like "what should my host do to make this work" or something. It also may help them to know that you can edit your own php.ini file (though that may have absolutely nothing to do with it, it never hurts to give them the info).

I'm really curious about what they have to say...

[phin]

I spoke to a MT Tech Rep again today.

They'd asked if bluehost was running FastCGI (which it looks like we are).

They gave me a code change that's in the process of being tested by their QA department. When I put it in everything worked great.