It’s was snap to upgrade from Movable Type 3.15 to Movable Type 3.2!
I was really scared to do the upgrade even though there are sundry anti-comment spam and anti-trackback spam tools built into the new version.
I was scared because I didn’t want any downtime at all. I was concerned that dealing with templates and settings and permissions was going to be as much of a pain in the ass as Movable Type 3.15 was to install and upgrade. Upgrading from 3.11 to 3.15 was a pain and so I was “once bitten twice shy.”
I mean, what could be as easy as the WordPress installation and WordPress upgrades?
Well, installing and upgrading Movable Type was so easy.
Just make sure you follow these important upgrade suggestions:
* Prepare to upgrade by backing up your Movable Type data
* Check the mt.cfg file settings to make sure they’re still correct, and move them to the new mt-config.cgi file, if desired
* Upload the new version of Movable Type on top of the old installation
* Log in to your new version of Movable Type to complete the upgrade
Then just make sure you change your permissions on all the .cgi files to 755:
$chmod 755 *.cgi
And login to your site: http://www.yoursite.com/mt.cgi
And it will upgrade everything for you, bring you up-to-date, and port over your current setting.
It seems as easy as that.
And all the amazing anti-comment spam and anti-trackback spam tools! Built in.
So, not Chris Abraham – Because the Medium is the Message web site is not armored against comment spam and ping trackback spam.
And now I can stop apologizing to all of my readers and commenters now that I have dug myself out from under the thousands of moderated comment spam that had been oppressing me.
