- .Text to Community Server MigrationThat was much easier than I expected. It's so rare that I get to say that about anything in this business.<BR><BR>I installed Community Server on my server, ran it's (web-based) installer, and I had a working Community Server installation.<BR><BR>Then I ran <A href="http://kevinharder.com/blogs/kevin">Kevin Harder</A>'s <A href="http://kevinharder.com/blogs/kevin/archive/2005/03/24/333.aspx">DotText-To-CS-Converter</A>, which
<P class=title>converted all the data. I had to manually add an IsActive column to the .Text database since apparently I was missing one (not sure how that happened) but once I had done that, the conversion completed successfully (if slowly; it took nearly 24 hours).</P>
<P class=title>Then to redirect links to my old blog to the new one, I used a redirection feature of IIS that I didn't know existed until I ran across this Knowledge Base article:</P>
<P class=title><A href="http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324000">HOW TO: Redirect URLs to Different Web Sites</A></P>
<P class=title>In the properties for my <EM>dottext</EM> folder in the IIS administrator, I set it so the content would come from a redirection to a URL, and entered this URL:</P>
<P class=title>http://www.stevex.org/CS/blogs/dottext$0</P>
<P class=title>The $0 is replaced with the rest of the source beyond the dottext folder. </P>
<P class=title>With this done, old links to content within my .Text site still work and point to the new site. </P>
<P class=title>So far I like Community Server. It's got more stuff than I need, but it's nice to be able to use a rich text editor in Firefox - that was my main reason for wanting to upgrade. The direct link to edit a post is nice, compared to .Text's requirement that you log into the admin console to edit a post.</P>
<P class=title> </P>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:09 GMT