This is true too, but I don’t think you can host a typepad blog as a

directory on your site without some kind of redirect, and that’s going to

blow it all anyway.

While subdomains are good for separation and security, / extensions are fast

and easy to blend right into the existing website.

Theoretically you can host a subdomain on a totally different separate

server, but it is not always necessary to have that much separation.

I say the bestdietforme.com/weblog option is easy to setup and we could

stick with it for a long time until traffic to the blog is un-bearable on

the same server (we should be so lucky)!!!

Subdomain is going to be easiest, you will need to be able to create a cname

record for the subdomain in order to have it hosted properly on Typepad.

My answer would be both, especially if you’re running multiple sites with multiple domains off of a single installation.

There are only two situations when it really matters were MT exists:

* When an author is going to the MT interface to create entries

* When your resulting site is calling mt-comments.cgi or mt-script.cgi

Personally, I think it’s easier for people to remember “mt.domain.com” than it is for them to remember “www.domain.com/mt” (I also put in automated redirectors to take a user directly to /cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi). So I generally set up MT as a subdomain when possible (I also use it at work at a huge company where they won’t create subdomains in the DNS system without huge business justifications).

I then create symbolic links from www.myblog.com/cgi-bin/mt to mt.domain.com/cgi-bin/mt. That way the files can be accessed from both domains. And more importantly, the only domain that ever shows up to a visitor is the blog domain, not my admin domain.

In 3.2, they’ve made this really easy to set up by splitting out AdminCGIPath from CGIPath. Set CGIPath to a relative URL (“/cgi-bin/mt/”) and then set AdminCGIPath to “mt.domain.com/cgi-bin/mt/”

If you don’t like relative URL’s in your resulting pages, you can combine the use of MTCGIPath with MTBlogURL to create absolute URL’s.

http://planet.movalog.com/

http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/members/

Six Apart Pronet

Link: http://www.tinypineapple.com/downloads/mt.cfg