Someone asked me if I had done this and could pass along any insights: I haven’t but I see that doing it might get rid of a problem. I find the response time on interactions to be quite sluggish (it’s a 233 with 64 Mb RAM: I can’t expect much). So I’ll see how this goes.
I read the docs linked to above, and used cpan to install the necessary modules. Turns out I don’t even have mod_perl installed.
cd /usr/ports/www/mod_perl; make install
There, done. Then back to cpan and “install Apache::Cookie” and “install Apache::Request”
Hmm, they’re both up to date as a result of installing mod_perl. Great!
cd /www
mkdir mtfiles
cd movabletype
cp -rp docs images styles.css ../mtfiles/
Then edit http.conf as instructed.
The last step — editing all the templates — still eludes me. It’s not clear if they’re in the perl code, the HTML, or elsewhere.