Blog moved
By Osma on Saturday 28 October 2006, 20:51 - Permalink
I had to make a choice between finding new hosting for the server running the old Fishpool.org, finding an equivalent service somewhere else, or moving to a new type of blog hosting. Since I wasn't all that ethusiastic about continuing to maintain the server anyway, I decided to make use of the blog service of GANDI, my domain registrar.
Unfortunately this switch means the permalinks to the old posts changed. Sorry about that.
To transfer the blog over (which I just did again, due to missing a couple of little details such as extended entry body texts.. oops), I needed to create a MovableType template that would contain the whole article archive in RSS form for importing to DotClear, which GANDI uses. The template I used is below for your reusing pleasure...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/">
<channel>
<title><$MTBlogName remove_html="1" encode_xml="1"$></title>
<link><$MTBlogURL$></link>
<description><$MTBlogDescription remove_html="1" encode_xml="1"$></description>
<webMaster><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryAuthorEmail$></MTEntries></webMaster>
<copyright>Copyright <$MTDate format="%Y"></copyright>
<pubDate><MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryDate format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S"$></MTEntries></pubDate>
<generator>http://www.movabletype.org/?v=<$MTVersion$></generator>
<admin:errorReportsTo rdf:resource="mailto:<MTEntries lastn="1"><$MTEntryAuthorEmail$></MTEntries>"/>
<MTEntries lastn="1000">
<item>
<title><$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1" encode_xml="1"$></title>
<link><$MTEntryLink encode_xml="1"$></link>
<description><$MTEntryExcerpt remove_html="0" no_generate="0" encode_xml="1"$></description>
<pubDate><$MTEntryDate format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S"$></pubDate>
<guid><$MTEntryLink encode_xml="1"$></guid>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<$MTEntryBody$>
<p><$MTEntryMore$></p>
<MTComments>
<comment><p>
Comment by <commentAuthor><MTCommentAuthorLink show_email="0" ></commentAuthor> on
<MTCommentDate format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S">:<br/>
<MTCommentBody convert_breaks="0"
remove_html="1"></p></comment>
</MTComments>
]]></content:encoded>
<category><$MTEntryCategory remove_html="1" encode_xml="1"$></category>
</item>
</MTEntries>
</channel>
</rss>