Good news, I have upgraded the platform system to version 4.
Movable Type is the premier blogging platform, and I configured it for my system today.
MT4 is out 2 days ago. There are many beta version out before, and I didn't use them, because I believe many and many bugs will exist in beta version. Actually, so does it. Although MT 4 is out, I found there still are many bugs ,and not stable. However,it is time for upgrading it.
The road seems to be very hard.
The old version is 3.34, and I backup it first, then unzip the the MT4 package over the installation directory. These 2 steps are simple. The next step is trying to access it.
If you enter the url, it will give you a page for upgrade, follow its instruction. All is OK. Sign in the system, I found the page doesn't display normally. then I use Firefox proxy tool to monitor the traffic, the scripts are not loaded . so I copied the files located in mt-static. Good, it could work now.
Then I planned to write an entry, my god, the interface of the writing page is ugly. the first reason I thought is the javascript. Unfortunately, I can't get the answer. then I tried to check the css files, the page can't still work .
OK, seems I have to install a fresh one, delete the work directory, unzip the MT4, it is simple to install it. My god, all works now. :)
And I found many plugins are available, so I had to copy the plugins and enabled them.
I customized the templates before, but they can't work now. so I have to spend much time learning the tags in MT4.
Suggestions:
If you want to upgrade your system, some advices for you:
Movable Type is the premier blogging platform, and I configured it for my system today.
MT4 is out 2 days ago. There are many beta version out before, and I didn't use them, because I believe many and many bugs will exist in beta version. Actually, so does it. Although MT 4 is out, I found there still are many bugs ,and not stable. However,it is time for upgrading it.
The road seems to be very hard.
The old version is 3.34, and I backup it first, then unzip the the MT4 package over the installation directory. These 2 steps are simple. The next step is trying to access it.
If you enter the url, it will give you a page for upgrade, follow its instruction. All is OK. Sign in the system, I found the page doesn't display normally. then I use Firefox proxy tool to monitor the traffic, the scripts are not loaded . so I copied the files located in mt-static. Good, it could work now.
Then I planned to write an entry, my god, the interface of the writing page is ugly. the first reason I thought is the javascript. Unfortunately, I can't get the answer. then I tried to check the css files, the page can't still work .
OK, seems I have to install a fresh one, delete the work directory, unzip the MT4, it is simple to install it. My god, all works now. :)
And I found many plugins are available, so I had to copy the plugins and enabled them.
I customized the templates before, but they can't work now. so I have to spend much time learning the tags in MT4.
Suggestions:
If you want to upgrade your system, some advices for you:
- Please backup your system, including database
- Install a fresh one . not overwrite the old directory
- Make sure the css, javascripts locate in their correct place
- Maybe some plugins are not working now
- Please learn how to use the new tags , if you already customized your pages brefore
