Old blog migrated January 7, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : General , trackbackOne of the things I got around to over the break was to migrate my previous blog into distributedresearch.net. The old blog was on a Movable Type installation set up by Tom Smith and hosted at the now defunct ultralab. It was unavailable for a week or so and who knows when they might switch everything off forever, so the migration was well overdue.
First I tried to export the entire text using MTs inbuilt export. This created an enormous file which was 98% unpublished spam trackbacks, so I wrestled with the despamming interface for some time and tried again. Once the offline period started I had to make do with what I had, which involved some manual text editing.
Then I installed Movable Type on my server, spent some time trying to get it to work with the particular version of PHP here and gave it up as a bad job. In comes Wordpress 2 instead, which happily imported all of the posts and comments, and can be maintained or even developed if I feel like it. All that remained was to start moving across the image and movie files where they had been uploaded to MT, and then edit the posts to point to the new location.
Perhaps the SH-Autolink plugin would do the lot in one go, or a global find and replace within the MySQL database.
Anyway, the new version of the old blog is now at http://distributedresearch.net/blog2/
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