After a year of inactivity (for my Master's Degree) I wanted to start up my parenting blog again, based on Movable Type.
In the interim the server had crashed, and my host had moved to a new one. Everything after the crash appeared to be working, but when I tried to use MT, I ran into problems.
First, MT would hang trying to publish entries, claiming permissions errors. I got the corrected path and put that in settings->publishing.
Now I don't have permissions errors, or errors of any kind. MT says it's publishing new entries, but it's not. MT thinks the entries are published, but clicking on the direct link gives "file not found" and the entry doesn't show up on the front page.
MT just worked for two years, so I never really got into the nuts and bolts of it. This is the first major problem I've had. I've searched the web and the MT forums but nothing doing. Does anyone have an idea, short of deleting the entire blog and starting over or migrating the MySQL database (neither prospect appeals to me)?
Thanks
Jason
Reported on Movable Type 3.x
Well, you might be able to isolate part of the problem by deleting all of your existing published entries, and doing a rebuild. If it can generate some of them, but not others, delete them again, and see if another rebuild gets you back the same set of files. If that be the case, then it's probably either a permission/space quota issue or something damaged in MT or its database.
I figured it out; I was leaving off the MT static directory from the path, so MT was publishing to the wrong directory, the root of the website itself. Because the original folders were there, the website still worked. Once I reset the path to include the MT directory everything went back to normal.
This only happened because of the server crash that changed the path. If the server hadn't died, the path would not have changed.
Thanks for your help!