[consulting] Need Help w/ MoveableType Import

[Travis Carden]

Oh, allow me to clarify: The site won't *stay* on Drupal 5. I'm just
stopping off there long enough to import the content. Then I'm upgrading to
Drupal 6, where all the building and theming has already been done. I plan
to use the Path Redirect <http://drupal.org/project/path_redirect> module to
handle the redirects. I just need to capture the paths to *put into it*.


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> 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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