Fuddland

Here are a couple of small problems I had whilst upgrading to Movable Type 3.3, the solutions of which I’m putting here in case anyone else has similar troubles:

• During the database upgrade process, the error message “Categories must exist in the same blog” means that, for some reason, one of your subcategories has a parent category in a different weblog—the most likely explanation for this is that your database has gotten a bit screwed up. The solution is to either:

  • restore your backed-up database, then use the previous MT installation to change the parent category;

  • edit the database table mt_category directly, using phpMyAdmin or a similar tool if your host provides it.

• If, after rebuilding your weblog, you find that all your weblog entry pages are giving a 500 Internal Server Error message, it may be due to MT setting their permissions to 666. To remedy this, delete all MT-generated content, add the following lines to your mt-config.cgi file and rebuild:

  UploadUmask 0022
UploadPerms 0666
HTMLPerms 0666
HTMLUmask 0022
DirUmask 0022
DBUmask 0022

#1

Anglofille | 2006 / 07 / 17 – 23:55

If I admit I didn’t understand any of this (except for the words “Movable Type”), will I be banished from reading your blog?

[I am not admitting to anything right now. This is a hypothetical question.]

#2

Daisy | 2006 / 07 / 18 – 01:20

If I admit that it scares the bejesus out of me, even though I use WordPress not MT, will I be too be banished?

Or can I take the Fifth?

#3

David | 2006 / 07 / 19 – 16:08

Re #1 & #2: The really worrying part is that I don’t understand most of it. ;)

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