Everomp: Design Makes the Heart Go Yonder

Second Glance

What Would Jesus Buy? A Nintendo Wii for His apostles' down time, me thinks.  ›

$25,000 dessert? I bet it tastes like crap.  ›

Coal miner. I'm speechless. And he's smoking.  ›

Broken camera. Would you get yours fixed?  ›

GlassBooth. Sorting through candidate positions broken down by category. Very cool tool.  ›

Black-OPs bunny. This is just wrong. Gotta love the Internet.  ›

Montecito residence. Beautiful lines, spacious interior, slightly Mad Max'ish (which can be a good thing).  ›

An (obviously) old Iraqi banknote. Saddam seems to happy.  ›

I know some people that swear by Olive Garden's superb food. I'm not one of them. They're okay, not great. But at least we can now all agree, their food is fattening as hell.  ›

The ghosts are here, at least in Thailand. Worth watching just for the weird factor alone.  ›

"Do Not Call" violators seriously violated. Muahaha.  ›

Qi Zhong Stadium in Shangai, hosting the Tennis Masters, opens up like a flower. Amazing!  ›

Breaking down the history of Pentagram. Thank you Curtis.  ›

"Why do so many companies risk destroying their design heritage - one of their most valuable assets?" Fear of risking being, oh, how do you say, unique? [do]  ›

Decca. A lovely vinyl sleeve.  ›

Dribble

Said elsewhere:

• Answer Me This
• Too Many Fonts
• Transparent Borders
• Show Me the Path
• The Ocho
• Good Job, Harry
• Paperless
• A Hero Down

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June 21, 2007

Migration Is Dirty

Okay, Everomp is settling into its new home. Wasn’t that bad. Stubbed a few toes moving boxes in. Hit my head on the mantle above the fireplace once. Ouch. Other than that, I think any major issues are passed us.

The only real setback I had was moving Movable Type in one piece to its new home. I knew settings would be off and I’d have to re-jigger a few toggles. Mainly I was vaguely fearful of permissions, databases, things I haven’t much clue about. After a quick email from Dreamhost’s support staff, I made quick headway.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find much information on moving MT to a new server. So, to you struggling with the same problem, hopefully you’ve found this.

I got the dreaded Internal Server Error. I’m sure this means clear roadblocks to some, but all I could see was fog. However the problems were easily solved.

1. Make sure the directory containing your mt.cgi files is set to 777. I used a regular FTP program to accomplish this.
2. Do the same for the directory containing your database. I did this without testing step 1, but I’m assuming this is necessary.
3. Run mt-check.cgi. You want to make sure your new server has all the right pieces in working order.
4. Open up mt.cfg with your text editor of choice (I used BBEdit) and check your home directory settings. Mine still contained the root path of my old server. I only changed the first three lines, but read through and make appropriate changes: CGIPath http://www.mydomain.com/movabletype/ DataSource /home/root/to/your/db/
5. These steps should get mt.cgi to work properly. Once logged in, go to your Settings page, and then Publishing. Make the appropriate changes to the following: Site Root: /home/root/ (where root has your index page)
   Archive Root: /home/root/archive

Only reason I cover the last step is I scratched my head a couple minutes wondering why I still couldn’t publish anything new. My scripts worked. My database was live. Yet nothing was getting through. Sometimes the simplest answers are the hardest to find.

Fortunately, these steps are pretty basic and painless. Everything is in working order now. Hopefully you can say the same.

Now get back to work.

Clamoring

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