[consulting] Need Help w/ MoveableType Import

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

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.

For permalinks, just insert the old permalink as an aliases for the nodes,
and you preserve the existing URLs on the new site.

I would have said use .htaccess rules, but with 4,000 entries, this is not
feasible.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Cameron Eagans <cweagans at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?)
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Travis Carden <travis.carden at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm polishing of a site migration from MoveableType to Drupal 5. (Why
>> Drupal 5, you ask? Because the Import Typepad / MoveableType<http://drupal.org/project/import_typepad>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!
>>
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