July 24, 2003

Good to know about migrating MT to other servers

Liz Lawley is moving her blog to a new domain. In her two most recent posts she describes some problems that may occur when moving MT to a new server.

Haven't even thought of this, but there definitely is a problem with the permalinks generated by MT if you export all your posts at one server and then import them at another. Due to id:s in the database the numbering of posts will probably be different after the import.

I�ve dragged my heels on this because of the exact issues that Shelley raises regarding weblog portability. As a neophyte blogger, I naively chose the default individual archive templates in MT, which use an entry number that�s not hard-coded to the content. If I export the entries here and import them elsewhere, those ID numbers will change, making redirection extremely difficult. When I switch servers, I�ll switch to name-based individual archive pages (like what Joi uses). But before I can get to that point, I have a couple of things to figure out.

Switching to naming files using the title of the post sounds like a good idea. Perhaps something to think about. Will probably affect listings in search engines as well.

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