Now, I know what you may be thinking; telling MT to rebuild won’t make it necessarily rebuild. In fact, clicking on rebuild doesn’t even make it rebuild half of the time. I wanted to post this, in order to see if there are others out there that are still using MT, and if you are experiencing similar issues as myself: whenever I try to rebuild my site (which has about 200+ entries and over 800 comments; not to mention categories), it usually snags up, and times out. I can’t seem to get it to stop doing this, and is progressively more annoying each time it happens. Should I just switch to WordPress (or something equally awesome and better than MT)??? Should I try and learn something that would be practically “impossible” to me; i.e. learn how to use php or something else to build/modify my own system (if so, we need to be reasonable here… I don’t want to undertake something that will take months to do)? Or, can this problem be solved easily? Help me out here folks! I know there are tons of smart, smart web people out there! I am at my wits end, and I have started pulling out my gorgeous hair.
And, the irony here lies in the fact that I must now rebuild the site, in order for you to see this entry. NICE!
Switch to Word Press
I’m using WP. Currently, I’m still trying my best to learn more about php.
Definitely go with PHP. I realize it’s a large undertaking, but it kicks ass for *actually working when you need it to*.
I had the same problem with MT – once I got to the point where I had a lot of stuff in the system (I’d say about 500 entries, and not too many comments) it would completely hang on me. I switched to WP a while ago and have never been happier – no spam, no rebuilding, assloads of plug-ins, and an extremely helpful bunch of support-type people. I managed to combine about 6 years of Livejournal, MT, Pmachine, and Greymatter entries into the current install of WP on my site
Duane, I recently switched to Textpattern, but not because I was unhappy with MT. I never had problems with MT 3.x rebuilding, but I used to have problems with MT 2.x. That is, when I would leave my firewall on, it couldn’t rebuild. So I would have to disable my firewall each time I posted. It was a strange bug, because the rebuilding should all be done server side and should have nothing to do with my computer, but it occured on several MT installations.
I posted a similiar request on my blog a few weeks ago and the response was unanimous… move to WordPress. If you’re current host supports PHP & MySQL, you’re set. If it doesn’t, move to Dreamhost. They’re real cheap and provide one-click WordPress installs. Email me if you’re interested, they have a referral deal where I can give you free activation… Good luck!
I switched to WordPress almost a year ago & am so happy that I did. Of course, I switched from Blogger, which is slightly different than MT
I’d just like to get a decent Template myself escaping bloogspot altogether. I’m clueless how to do that…Blogs like yours always make me feel so inadequate.
Well if you haven’t decided to switch to WordPress yet and still want to give ole MT another shot you can try this. I talked about at the last APWBWGTTD meetup but doubt you would remember after all those Irish Car Bombs.
Open up you mt.cgi file (remember always create a backup before editing so you can put it back to the old way if it doesn’t work out) and find the following code line: # PingTimeout 20 This is hold many seconds MT will timeout at on pings and rebuilds. The default is set to 20 secs so you might want to set it to something like 60 secs.
The second thing you can do is change how many entries you rebuild at a time by editing this code: # EntriesPerRebuild 40 Default is 40 and I would cut down to something like 20 entries at a time.
Now I still have install files for the older version MT 3.17 if you want to downgrade. If all that doesn’t work then you just might want to switch to WordPress.
DON’T PULL THE HAIR! Nothing is worse than bald patches…
If you are thinking of switching to another system, WP is definitely the way to go as already mentioned. Instructions for migrating from MT can be found here at the WP Codex.
Let me know if I can help any.
Please don’t pull out your gorgeous hair.
Wordpress is a good system. I would offer my home-brewed system for your use, but it has a couple of bugs on the admin side that I’ve been too lazy to fix (since I’m the only one who uses it – well, me and one other guy – and I don’t care).
I don’t know what kind of server setup you have, but if it has Perl I assume it has PHP.