I just wrote a simple converter for my Blog Image, and I started to see some of the infrastructure that exists in MT more clearly. The script traverses the files in my locally published blog directory, and does all the proper substitutions. It creates the new tree of files which can then eventually be posted to my public site.
What I discovered is that there is an HTTP Cookie that is used for comments, so all the URLs that reference comments need to be excluded from the global replacement. I'll be checking how this works as soon as I have a proper version of the site available. The web server machine still lacks a proper install of MT, which is waiting until I have solved the most basic issues. Then I will describe the entire step-by-step process to get MT installed with my real goals in mind.
Posted by David Cymbala at February 7, 2003 04:44 PM