After a number of mistaken changes to mt-config.cgi that ultimately had my Movable Type dashboard fail to come up properly, I managed a set of changes that work for blogs whether under the main site, such as this one, and whether under other sites, such as Spanner Wingnut on orcmid.com.
What I did was remove any ##-comments at the ends of non-comment lines. Those are not recognized as comments. I also shrank the white space between the name of the configuration settings and their parameter values.
Since I had attempted so many different changes before I figured out how I was going wrong, I don't know which of the mt-config.cgi changes were necessary to have comments working for Spanner Wingnut. They appear to be sufficient and I am keeping it this way for now.
I will also symbolically link at least cgi-bin/mt/ and perhaps mt-static/ into every domain in which I bring up other Movable Type blogs.
Having accomplished Plan B, for now, I will look at customization of templates for Spanner Wingnut. I also want to see what it takes to hook up Windows Live Writer.
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