Comments for Site organization question

Site organization question

2010-02-05T18:21:22Z

I'm a total newbie to MT, so please be gentle. I've set up MT5 and migrated a blog over from Blogger (with a LOT of effort). My site has always had my blog as the index page -- in other words, if you come to www.mynonurbanlife.com, you got my blog and whatever other nav links I hung from it. Very simple. In building my MT5 installation, I ended up with it placing the blog at www.mynonurbanlife.com/blogs/mynonurbanlife. Even assuming I want the blog's index page to be my front page, is there a way to publish it to the site root, www.mynonurbanlife.com, rather than having to do a redirect?

Thanks for any thoughts you have.

Comment from Chelle on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T20:12:57Z

Try looking under Settings>General
There is a slot for 'Blog URL'. This is where you tell MT to publish the blog. You want to enter: http://www.mynonurbanlife.com/

You want the last slash, but do not include anything after (such as index.html, blog.html or it may mess other things up).

I hope this helps!

Comment from carljohnson on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T20:22:15Z

Thanks. That's what I tried, but in the Settings, it won't let me edit the first part of the blog URL -- it only lets me change the subdirectory after blog. The rest is uneditable. Maybe I need to start over.

Comment from Chelle on 2010-02-05

2010-02-05T20:42:13Z

Do you have 'subdomain' selected at all? It's a longshot but that's the only thing I can think of that it would do that....

Comment from carljohnson on 2010-02-05

2010-02-06T00:51:37Z

Nope, that's not it, but I'm wondering if something similar is. The site that shows up as www.mynonurbanlife.com is actually a subdomain of my business site, so maybe there's something about the way that name is resolved in the server that messes things up. I'm going to try installing MT in my true root directory and then see if I can set things up the way I want to. I figure there's got to be a reason I haven't really seen any other comments about this problem - meaning the problem is me.

Comment from Chelle on 2010-02-05

2010-02-06T01:16:17Z

Sounds like a good place to start. If you find out what's causing it and fix it, post here so that others who may have the same problem can find it.

Comment from carljohnson on 2010-02-06

2010-02-06T16:22:19Z

Well, that was interesting. I went through all the steps to install MT again in my site's true root directory. A little bit of pain, but it all worked in the end. I left the MySQL database in place, ran the configuration wizard on the new installation of MT, hooked it up to the database -- and it shows my blog information perfectly. I didn't figure I'd be able to move it from there. Now, when I try to create a new blog, it STILL won't let me specify anything other than a subdirectory of www.mynonurbanlife.com/blog -- and that's not even where I'm running MT from now. Very confusing. Nothing in the config file that would cause that, as far as I can see. I'm a bit hesitant to delete the database and start again to see what happens.

Comment from carljohnson on 2010-02-06

2010-02-06T16:30:34Z

I TAKE IT BACK! That did work -- I had to go into the website settings:general (not the blog settings) and change the publishing location. This time it let me change them, so I think getting MT installed in the true root rather than the subdomain's root made a difference.

Comment from zknower on 2010-02-09

2010-02-10T06:33:52Z

carljohnson, i am about to migrate a blog from blogger to MT. mind telling me how you did it?

Comment from carljohnson on 2010-02-10

2010-02-10T18:26:53Z

zknower, I described it in some detail at my blog:
http://www.mynonurbanlife.com/2010/02/well-ive-almost-done-it-warning-tech-talk.html

It may go easier for you, it may not. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Comment from zknower on 2010-02-13

2010-02-14T00:08:10Z

wow. i read your entry and my head is spiiiiiining. looks like i've got some work ahead of me. thanks for laying it all out; i may be in touch if i run into issues.

Comment from carljohnson on 2010-02-14

2010-02-14T16:39:33Z

Start with that article at eHow:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4495211_export-blogger-moveable-type-blog.html

It may be just that easy for you.