Agreed on not keeping it on Drupal 5. Either upgrade it after you import to D6, or better yet port the module to Drupal 6 and start over.<br><br>For permalinks, just insert the old permalink as an aliases for the nodes, and you preserve the existing URLs on the new site.<br>
<br>I would have said use .htaccess rules, but with 4,000 entries, this is not feasible.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Cameron Eagans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cweagans@gmail.com">cweagans@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, if you can get a CSV export or something of your movable type blog, there are other modules that you can import into Drupal 6 with. I would very very very strongly recommend -not- starting a new site on Drupal 5 at this point, considering that Drupal 5 is EOL when Drupal 7 is released, which should be relatively soon (3 - 6 months perhaps?)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Travis Carden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:travis.carden@gmail.com" target="_blank">travis.carden@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<font face="verdana,sans-serif">I'm polishing of a site migration from MoveableType to Drupal 5. (Why Drupal 5, you ask? Because the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/import_typepad" target="_blank">Import Typepad / MoveableType</a> module for Drupal 6 doesn't work yet.) The site consists of a little under 4,000 blog posts and over 40,000 comments. I've got everything in place except for capturing "permalinks" and preserving them as path redirects to the new nodes. If anyone has some experience/expertise with this sort of thing, please email me. Thanks!<br>
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