Ran into a problem with the bit that talks about renaming mt.cfg to mt-config.cgi. If you take that method, you will also have to add in the password, as the password was stored in a separate file using the .cfg method. This really needs to be added to the docs, as it's a showstopper, can't proceed with the upgrade without the password being in there.

For those of us still running MT 2.6x, please provide a URL where we can download MT 3.35 so that we can perform the recommended intermediate upgrade. Thanks.

How can the MT MySQL database be changed after MT4 is installed? I maintain two databases, switching between them when necessary to restore backups etc. How can I switch from one MySQL database to another without reinstalling MT?

The directions make absolutely no mention of the mt-static aspect. Many installs require that mt-static be somewhere other than the cgi-bin directory.

I'm updating from MT3 to MT4.01. I maintain 2 weblogs, rchrd.com/photo and rchrd.com/blog, and was using the Berkeley DB. Now I must upgrade to mySQL. The MT3 code is installed in /mt and I've uploaded the MT4.01 code to /MT4. I've also saved the photo/ and blog/ directories for safe keeping.

My fear is that if I start the upgrade script to convert the DB to mySQL it may fail in the middle. Is the upgrade destructive of the original database? Or will I still be able to access the MT3 weblogs should the upgrade fail.

This is very important, obviously.

Also, I must say that your documentation is awful. Ok, we're using the free product and you get what you pay for. And I'm a programmer with gobs of years of experience and my knees are shaking just from reading the docs and the blog. I need some reassurance here that 4 years of blogging isn't going to be lost in an instant.

From what I understand, I can upgrade from 3.15 to 4 by first upgrading to 3.5, then upgrading to 4.0? I should have no problem getting to 4.0? Also Byrne you said the upgrade guide was changed to include 3.35, but I can only find a link to the 3.35 download. The download contains no upgrade instructions that I can see, there is nothing off from this guide for upgrading to to 3.35 as far as docs or instructions.

I am nervous about upgrading, mainly so that my old content still works, as it's getting SE traffic. On that note, another reason I am nervous, I wonder if my current url structure is correct, because, When looking in to possibly switching to WP, all the information I found said to use mod re-write to change the "_" in MT to "-" for WP. Thing is, my old MT urls do not contain the complete title, it's like they were cut off. I'd like to stay with MT, but are those url's going to be a problem? I am no MT expert. Plus being I originally paid for MT, more of a incentive to stay with it.

One last big question, that I can't seem to find any answer to. One thing that bothered me with MT is with future posts, I had to go in and turn them into publish on the date set. I need more hands off, where I can set dates on posts and they publish when the right date and time come around. One big reason I looked at WP. Is MT now able to do that?

Thank you for your time..:)

ronnie

You need to add the following important instruction, taken from the MT first time install tutorial, to this upgrade tutorial:

"Make sure all the Movable Type cgi files (files ending with .cgi) in the mt directory on the Web server have execute permission. You should be able to select these files and check their properties with your FTP program."

My server wouldn't allow me to overwrite some files in the mt folder as instructed by this upgrade page. I had to delete the old files first, then copy over the new ones. If you don't then add "execute" permissions to the new files, you get a "500" server error and experience undue frustration.

thanks for upgrade