By default, Movable Type publishes a blog's archives into subdirectories of the Site Root. For a Site Root of /var/www/htdocs/blog, the following are examples of file system paths to pages created for each of the archive types enabled by default:

• Category archive: /var/www/htdocs/blog/politics/presidents.html
• Monthly archive: /var/www/htdocs/blog/2005/03/index.html
• Individual archive: /var/www/htdocs/blog/2005/03/presidents.html

However, there may be a case in which you desire to publish the archives elsewhere, outside of the Site Root hierarchy, or to provide a distinct URL for accessing them (e.g. using a subdomain).

If so, you can choose to turn on Advanced Archive Publishing option, which will allow you to specify the base Archive URL and Archive Root. These two options share the same basic descriptions as the Site URL and Site Root, except that specify the base paths for the publishing of the archives.

NOTE: If you simply wish to have all of the subdirectories created for the archives (e.g. /2005 and /politics in the examples above) contained in a single directory (e.g. /archives), you should prepend the extra path information to your Archive Map File Paths found in the Archive Mapping table instead of using this option.