I’ve finally moved this site to my dedicated server. What a huge freakin’ pain in the ass. I wasted hours migrating my configuration to the new Movable Type installation because Berkeley DB sucks and Six Apart still doesn’t have a utility to import / export an entire weblog. I tried TypeMover… it took a ton of mucking around to successfully export my ‘blog and I never managed to get an import to complete. Now I’ve got MT on MySQL, so if there’s a next time — God forbid, knock on wood — moving should be as simple as figuring out the correct SQL dump / import statements.
Sometimes I think my complementary Movable Type license was too expensive…
Update 3/2/2005: Comments are broken. I’m starting to wonder if maybe my MT configuration is a little too clever…
Update 3/4/2005: So let’s see. Nearly everything that I have MT output is RSS and PHP stubs, and the PHP uses an XSLT to create XHTML on the fly. I forgot to update the XSLT to reference the new MT location, so POSTs to mt-comments.cgi failed. While fixing the XSLT I forgot to disable line wrapping in nano, which caused some lines to wrap (duh), which caused mysterious problems with the Typekey JavaScript that I spent far too long attempting to troubleshoot. Then I kept getting an error about needing to create a comment preview template which completely threw me. I probably spent an hour scratching my head and wondering why the old mt.cfg settings and mt-dir/search_templates/comments.tmpl weren’t working before I realized that the comment templates are now regular weblog templates within MT, and somehow I did not have them. Probably TypeMover’s doing, but my bad for not deleting the stock-looking weblog it created and starting from scratch.
It’s all good now. I think.
Update Later: Realized that I forgot to update mt_dir/tmpl/email/new-comment.tmpl and lib/MT/App/Trackback.pm with the magic phrase to bypass the spam filter. And it looks like my original mod to Trackback.pm when I upgraded to MT 3.11 created a syntax error, which might explain why I haven’t seen a trackback since then…
