Upgrading

Because of a vulnerability in movabletype, my server is forcing their accounts who use the content management system to upgrade to a new version or be patched by them. I don't want my server messing with my shit so that's what I'm doing now. If my websites get screwed up, that's why.

UPDATE: Yay that was easy. The thing that took the longest was backing up the databases, just in case.

Since movabletype doesn't write scripts for upgrading, knowing how to use SSH and UNIX shell commands such as tar and rsync save hours.

You can upload just the mt-update.tar.gz and use

to extract the archive, where MT-upgrade is the name of the upgrade. Then use

where SRC is the source directory that was just extracted and DEST is the movabletype folder where you have all the .cgi files. Uploading the .tar.gz saves you from the pain of having to make sure the individual files get uploaded in ASCII or binary mode depending on if they are a cgi or image.

Using rsync saves you from having to replace any older copies of files because it's a remote file synchronization program. The -p option preserves the file permissions, saving you from having to check them all individually.

Posted by Ari at 14:00:29