Migration of blog.odd-e.com

Current blog is hosted on www and uses Movable Type (v5) and MySQL (v5), both too old and unsupported. The plan is to move the blog to fluxparty k8s cluster and use https://ghost.org as a modern blogging platform.

Steps

0. Backup data

• MySQL DB on infra (in case we need to use it temporarily while waiting for Linode's managed DB serice): GDrive/Backups/20240220-infra-mysqldump.sql.gz.
• Movable Type admin export: GDrive/Backups/20240219_odde-blog-movable-type-backup.tar.gz

1. Run migration

git clone git@github.com:nerds-odd-e/blog-migrate.git
cd blog-migrate
yarn
NODE_ENV=production node index.js $MT_BACKUP_FILE

To test locally, set NODE_ENV=test, or just remove the env var.

2. Test locally

• docker-compose up
• Go to http://localhost:8080/ghost/. Create admin account if 1st time. Then go to Settings -> Advanced -> Lab -> Import and upload output/blog.zip.

3. Configuration There should be a .env file (for testing purpose) in the root of the project to configure host and s3. The file should look like this:

BLOG_HOST=http://localhost:8080
BLOG_STORAGE=s3
BLOG_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AccessKeyId
BLOG_STORAGE_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=SecretAccessKey
BLOG_STORAGE_REGION=Region
BLOG_STORAGE_BUCKET=Bucket
BLOG_STORAGE_ASSET_HOST=Url to access the files leading with //
BLOG_STORAGE_ENDPOINT=Endpoint without the protocol and bucket

When running for production, the .env.production file should be in the root of the project.