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Friday March 26th 2004 07:54 AM PST

If you can see this, that means that you're seeing this website on its new server. I told you it would be painless. I've just lost a shitload of sleep trying to figure out why Will can't get his fuckin email. I just know if its a problem for him that means its gonna be just as much of a problem for Koga, Jon, John, Steve, Justin.... and is there anbody else on my box? Well one blog moved, and a couple more to do soon.

Heres the deal... Moveable Type cannot just be lifted off a server and moved. It may come as a surprise to you, but this is way too simple. The database files are tied into the directory structure of the server, so editing the mt.cfg file when you try to move doesn't do shit. I found this out the hard way. I moved will's MT directory to the new server and figured i'd be able to fire the bitch up with no problem. Nope. I eventually set my nameservers to my old ISP's and then logged into the the old server. Once in the MT interface on the old box i had to export everything. Then the data and comments end up in a big fuckin text file. Templates mostly are the HUGE pain in the ass cause you've gotta do them yourself one at a time. Then i popped back over to the new box and installed a clean new MT where i then imported all the data and templates.

All in all it was not fun, but then again, i didn't know what i was doing the first time around. The next few times should not be as much of a pain in the ass. (Especially cause i've got a mt.tar sitting waiting for everybody)

That's enough geek for today.

Steve-O house came close to fire yesterday. The pictures he sent everybody can be seen over on Jon's blog. I hope everything is ok up there and Steve's got a job to go to this weekend.

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Hm, maybe you should move my blog last, given all the shit I've got going on with it. :o

Posted by: Koganuts

uhm.... aren't you using mysql? all i did was dump the mysql stuff using phpmyadmin, then dump it back in on the new server with the new kick ass phpmyadmin, then tar up the dirs, ftp them over and untar. then you can login, and simply change the config to reflect the new directory structure on the new server. took me all of 5 minutes to move both my and wendy's blogs.

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