Almost there… need some help

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At my new host I’m facing a variation of the infamous “I’ve moved my site and I can’t login” error. I’ve posted it to the support forum last night, but in the interest if expediency, let me ask you here.

So:

1. I’ve copied my MT installation to the new host.
2. I’ve editted mt.cfg to reflect the correct paths.
3. I believe I have the correct permissions.
4. I’ve ran mt-check.cgi and have gotten positive results.
5. I’ve been able to start mt.cgi without an error.

Then I get “Invalid login” error when attempting to sign in.

6. I’ve followed the instructions in the docs titled, “I changed hosts, and now I can’t log in to Movable Type.”

Here go the results:

1. > db_upgrade *.db *.idx
db_upgrade: author.db: DB->upgrade only supported on native byte-order systems

db_upgrade: DB->upgrade: author.db: Invalid argument

2. > db_dump author.db
db_dump: author.db: btree version 6 requires a version upgrade
db_dump: open: author.db: DB_OLDVERSION: Database requires a version upgrade

3. > db_dump185 author.db
db_dump185: Command not found.

What now? Anybody here can lend a hand?

One thought on “Almost there… need some help”

  1. I recently moved my site. Had similar problems.

    What I did was used MT’s dump program – as I had the old version (2.0).

    Then installed 2.21 – but also set it up to use MySQL. I then used their import to shove the data into the database. That got all my blogs back.

    But alas, I had to cut-n-paste my templates from point A to point B.

    Dean

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