I have recently upgraded the back-end of this site to MovableType. Somehow, I managed to play around with my style file a little too much, and as a result, some pages are now really ugly. Especially entry details need a lot of work. Once I figure out what I did wrong, I hope I'll be able to fix it. Until then, please choose content over appearance :)
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I upgraded the engine that powers this blog to Movable Type 4 beta.
Note: Six Apart points out this software is beta software. It is not recommended for production use.
Having said that: it seems to work fine for me. I looked for upgrade documentation, but I was unable to find that. Just pretend like you are doing a fresh install, and it will all work out just fine. Do not forget to make a backup copy of your existing software, your existing site, and of your database before you start. I didn't need it, but having a good back-out scenario is always a good thing :)
I encountered a few glitches, but those were easily fixable.
- I had to update file permissions in the filesystem. MT4 wants to write a configuration file in your mt-scripts directory, so that needs to be writable for the user that runs the web server. Do not forget to remove these permissions once the file is written!
- My Apache server was configured fairly tightly and because of that, I got Internal Server Errors in detailed entry views. Configuring the directory that contains the website to AllowOverride +Indexes fixed that.
Once this was all done, my site was up and running without problems. While I didn't run into anything that was unfixable, others did, so please make sure that you have your rollback scenario ready before you start the upgrade.
The management interface looks very different than the previous version's did, and I haven't decided yet if I like it. My initial feeling tells me that Six Apart went a little overboard in the CSS realm, but that might be a matter of getting used to.
My biggest issue so far is that the spam filter does not seem to be as good as the old one. Significantly more spam trackbacks are getting through; something that didn't bother me before.
Another bug: If you assign categories to your post and then hit 'Preview' without hitting 'Save' first, you loose those categories.
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A few days ago, I wrote that I was considering moving this blog to the Movable Type platform.
The transition has taken place and the blog is at its new location. Please update your bookmarks and feed readers to reflect the new URL.
The transition was entirely painless; I dumped the Drupal database into the Movable Type import format and I was up and running in no time. I'll be tuning and tweaking later, but for now, I am up on the new platform.
I am considering to move this website to MovableType. That will probably require quite some scripting, as I am not aware of a way to export my content to a format that I can re-import in MT.
If you have any experience with that, please let me know.
The reason why I am considering the upgrade is that keeping the current CMS (Drupal) patched and up-to-date takes too much effort, and because the performance of this site is excessively poor at times.
While I have not been able to pinpoint the problem, I suspect that it has something to do with the versions of MySQL and Drupal. If you are experiencing more than 5 minute waits between page loads on a Drupal system and know (or suspect) what it is caused by, please let me know too!
