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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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