In trying to get everything ready to move over, I had been struggling with the need to migrate a lot of old posts over. While I’m still running on WordPress, there was so much cruft in how the old blog worked that I simply couldn’t bring over all the plugins needed to render things. So, what’s a geek to do? Use wget! I just pulled down everything and mirrored it on the new server so that I could get rid of the underlying PHP code.
Once that was done, it was time to figure out how to make mod_rewrite work correctly. That’s always a fun time. This time, however, it turned out that the existing rewrite rules from WordPress were fine. Since I’d stopped blogging in 2009, and the archive structure used the year as the top level, I could simply move the files over and poof everything worked. Handy. There’s still some residual cruft, mind you, but eventually that will get resolved. Mostly about moving over some bits and pieces that are needed to properly render things.
Tick, tock; tick, tock. Time keeps on ticking. For now, the archives are still in place, at least for the individual posts. Unfortunately, for now, the category listings are offline and once I figure out how to put them back, I’ll keep those in place as well.
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