Have been meddling around with a blog management software (Movable Type) for the past few weeks. Finally got it running on my windows box after quite a bit of struggle. The problem was in finding the right set of tools/instructions to get it up.
Finally found a good set of instructions at this site http://emptybottle.org/glass/2007/08/installing_movable_type_4_on_xampp.php
I have archived some pointers against the above instructions for reference.
Here they are:
1) The latest version of XAMPP has some issues with the perl addon. When the Movable type installation is started, perl (5.10) crashes with a dll not found error. Had to revert to an older version of XAMPP which was compatible with Perl 5.8 (I used 1.6.0) (Download location - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp)
2) Download location for the perl addon (I used 5.8) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp . Choose download -> browse all files -> windows add-ons)
3) Go to http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php and setup a password for your MySql database in the Xampp installation .
4) Then go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ . Login as root with the password you specified in the previous step. Go inside and create a new database .
5) mt-config.cgi that I used:
CGIPath http://localhost/cgi-bin/mt/
StaticWebPath http://localhost/mt-static
##### MYSQL #####
ObjectDriver DBI::mysql
Database [database name from point 4]
DBUser root
DBPassword [database password from point 3]
DBHost localhost
