{"id":142,"date":"2005-08-06T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=142"},"modified":"2005-08-06T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T19:15:03","slug":"moving-movable-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Moving movable type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what I&#8217;d been told, moving <a href=\"\">Movable Type<\/a> was an absolute doddle <b>\ud83d\ude00<\/b>. I followed the following steps, just in case any of my friends have to do it and aren&#8217;t sure how to go about it.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><code>tar<\/code> the MT directory<\/li>\n<li><code>mysqldump<\/code> the mt database using the command line or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanel.org\">cPanel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Un<code>tar<\/code> the mysql database to the new director structure on the new server<\/li>\n<li>restore the mysql database on the new server<\/li>\n<li>recreate the database user account on the new server with the same name priviledges and password <i>(or use new settings &amp; go to next step<\/i><\/li>\n<li>update the mt.cfg file located in the MT <code>cgi-bin<\/code> director with revised settings for hostname, directories, database, user and password.<\/li>\n<li>and your off<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Hope I&#8217;ve been of assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what I&#8217;d been told, moving Movable Type was an absolute doddle \ud83d\ude00. I followed the following steps, just in case any of my friends have to do it and aren&#8217;t sure how to go about it. tar the MT directory mysqldump the mt database using the command line or cPanel Untar the mysql database [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}