Resurrecting marcsez.blogspot.com Posts
Do you remember my old blog?
My old blog was originally at http://marcsez.blogspot.com (that URL now redirects to http://marcvz.net). I started it way back in November 2005 and by April 2006 I was bored of Blogspot. There were very little customisation options available and by that time I was learning how to use web hosts and install PHP scripts on them. I was ready for Wordpress.
I had the option of importing all my old posts into the current Wordpress installation. However I wanted a fresh start and so I imported the old blog’s posts into another Wordpress installation and put it in http://mindfault.net/oldblog and redirected the Blogspot to it.
I’ve always wanted to consolidate all my posts into one single blog and I decided to do that today. The problem is that I cannot import because the version of PHP I have was not compiled with SSL support and/or the OpenSSL libraries are missing, to quote directly from the Wordpress support forums. So once Chetan asks the hosting provider to do that my old posts will be back. I’ve already made a new category for them.
He is your friend!!
August 18th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Marc,
How do you redirect from your blogger address? This is something I have been wondering myself!
August 18th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
It’s rather sneaky actually. I thought about it a bit and found out that by removing the template code and adding PHP redirection code I could redirect to my new blog.
I went to Dashboard > Settings > Template > Edit HTML
and replaced the template with
[?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
?]
(Make sure to backup your template first!)
However the new Blogger template does not seem to have any PHP in it so I’m not sure this will still work. If it doesn’t you can also use the following method.
Paste [meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://www.example.com/"][/meta] immediately after the [/head] tag and see if it works.
Note: Replace my square brackets with angle brackets in the code.
August 19th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Not to use you as a Support blog or something, but I got this message after I tried the second choice you recommended:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “http-equiv”.
August 19th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Damn. I meant immediately after the < head > tag and not the < / head > tag. Typo. Anyway, I’m getting the same error too. Probably because < / meta > is not the correct XML structure.
Anyway, this works:
[meta content='0;url=http://webdesign.about.com' http-equiv='refresh'/ ]
Paste immediately after [head].
I’ve tested it.
August 20th, 2007 at 9:49 am
No, I tried it after the head tag even the first time. In this case, should I replace the “webdesign.about.com” with my url, or only ‘about’? Another thing: is there a space between / and the closing angled bracket?
August 20th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
You should replace http://webdesign.about.com with http://rambodoc.wordpress.com/ . Yes there is a space there.
And make sure to replace [ and ] with < and > respectively.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Problem fixed. You should be able to import your posts now.
August 21st, 2007 at 9:35 pm
That was suspiciously fast. I’ll go see if it works.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Alright, it worked. Imported all posts successfully.