Dammit, this transfer is taking too long. The no-spaces rule for filenames really messed up my genealogy page, the Perl scripts seem not to be working – include path and SSI not quite right, and then the pages were loading slow because of some stats gathering that Yahoo appended on the pages. Luckily that could be switched off, which made things load a LOT faster.
I also rather foolishly attempted to upgrade WordPress from 2.0.2 to 2.0.6, and had some problem with caching that made me have to comment out some lines from wp-config.php. There was also some error when converting the database (post-status, or something), but it all seems to work.
Fun stuff. I’m slightly regretting the move to Yahoo because of the above problems, but it’s nice to be integrated with email – and the new email is nice, with multiple aliases meaning I can switch off my catch-all, which was generating spam up the proverbial wazoo.
Now what’s the big problem? Really just two outstanding issues. Firstly my weather page does not work since SSI of perl scripts (or anything other than a html file) simply does nothing.
Secondly, my genealogy gedcom browser does not work, since it can’t find the gedcom module. Either I need to move the module around, or I need to figure out include paths?
(a few minutes later) – hey, the “move the module around” worked fine, I just moved it up into the same directory as the script that was calling it, and it worked fine. I think it worked before because it was in the cgi-local folder, which on my old server was hard wired into the perl include path.
Now, the SSI problem I feel to be more intractable. I doubt I can make it work, but then the ONLY think I’m using it for is the weather page. So I could just hack it somehow, or just forget about it. It’s all just grepping, so should be a useful learning exercise to convert it to PHP – I want to learn PHP webbery so I can hack WordPress more effectivly.
Bah – it’s old technology, and I don’t even fly!, I’m just going to forget about the weather page for now.