Just upgraded this site to Movable Type 3.36 following the recent security advisory. Upgrade process was smooth and all seems well at this point. I’m still working on upgrading everything to the latest version 4 — just need to dedicate some time to sit down and finish it. Once I get upgraded to version 4, I can start allowing OpenID login for comments. (Including Yahoo!, which just announced this yesterday.)
My hosting provider provides built-in support for two different web log analysis packages: Analog and Webalizer. I’ve tried both of them, but neither gave me very good control over the data, so I decided to switch to AWStats which seems to be fairly popular. At first the installation steps were kind of painful, seeming to focus on an installation where I had full control over Apache (which I don’t). I finally found a short write-up from another Pair user that didn’t need the AWStats install script. Some background: My site has recently become bombarded with thousands of requests originating from…
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After playing with the beta build on a couple of systems, I finally updated this site to the new Movable Type 3.2 release. It was a little more complicated that I had hoped, but I was being extra careful and tried running in a “staging” location first. I started down the path of creating a brand new instance to get the new templates, but it didn’t look simple to copy over all my settings manually. Here’s the sequence I finally used: Backup everything Convert data from Berkeley (DB_File) format to MySQL; I had been meaning to do this for a…
I finally got around to upgrading this site from MovableType 2.66 to 3.11 (the latest). I wanted to upgrade just to get the latest plugins and to explore the new capabilities. Plus it gave me an excuse to back up my site which I’ve done only sporadically. With improved handling for comments, I might turn them back on. In fact, a day after upgrading, I got my first comment spam, but it was easily deleted from my approval queue before it hit the site.