2 Blogs - Advice On Transferring To A New Domain?

[julie]

Hi -

I currently have 2 blogs on my account. I want to give the second one its own domain name, and if I've read the forums correctly, I would have to set up a new TCH account to do this, correct? That's fine with me, but I wanted to make sure this was the case before going ahead and doing that and going through all the trouble of installing MT again. Also, do you have any advice on transferring the one blog to the new account? Is there a tutorial on this anywhere? Thank you!

[abinidi]

If you want to use an additional domain name, then yes, the TCH AUP requires that you either (1) have a separate hosting agreement, or (2) be a reseller.

 

I'm sure somebody else knows how to do this easier, but I imagine that when you have your new domain running, the TCH help desk could copy your blog folder from your old site to your new site. Then you would just have to reconfigure it for the new location (different database names [if necessary], etc.)

 

Those are my thoughts; maybe somebody else knows an easier way (especially some MT users).

[TweezerMan]

Yes, having two domains with different content does require two separate virtual hosting accounts, or that you upgrade to a reseller account.

 

MT does not really offer any practical way to extract one weblog's data, templates, settings, etc., from an installation with multiple weblogs. There's going to be two parts to migrating your second weblog to a new account: 1) Migrating data from your MT database, and 2) Migrating uploaded files on the server.

 

What I would probably do is export the MT database using phpMyAdmin in CPanel. This will produce an export file containing both of your weblogs. I would then import the database into the second domain's account, again using phpMyAdmin in CPanel.

 

After installing and configuring MT on the second domain, and importing the MT database into the second domain, I'd log into MT on the second domain and delete the first domain's weblog, leaving you just the second weblog you want to use on the new second domain. This process will migrate your entries, comments, trackbacks, templates, and weblog settings without any loss. Once you're sure everything is migrated and set up correctly, you can then delete the second weblog from the first domain's MT installation, leaving one MT weblog on each domain.

 

If you have any files you've uploaded to the server for the second weblog, such as image files, you'd need to copy those from the first domain over to the second domain (download them via FTP from the first domain, then upload them via FTP to the second domain). You don't need to migrate the actual MT weblog pages from the first domain - they can be recreated on the second domain by doing a full rebuild once you have the second weblog up and running on the second domain.

 

The Help Desk should be able to copy your MT database from your first domain to your second domain if you want them to. You'd still need to install and configure MT on the new domain, and delete the first weblog from the new domain's installation of MT once you have everything set up. The Help Desk could probably also copy any files you need from the first domain to your new domain, if you can clearly explain which files need to be copied.

 

Hope this helps...