Migrating To Drupal And New Domain

Well, I've talked about it for a while, but I just took the plunge.

I just migrated my OSS Ramblings blog to the new domain and moved all the old posts into the new Drupal engine. I really like Drupal, and I'm thrilled that I was able to save all my old posts from my Nucleus CMS site.

I'm sure there'll be a few issues with the old import, but at least the text is here. Any that had images uploaded along with the post probably will be lacking the images.

The actual import wasn't that hard, but figuring out the steps was a chore. I ended up taking my old Nucleus Data, doing some MySQL wonder work with it to merge the body and extended fields into one, remove the CR/LF's from the text along with any double quotes (which I just wholeheartedly replaced with single quotes for the export.) Then I was able to save the three fields I needed, being title, body and date posted as a CSV file. That then imported into Drupal using the node_import module.

I've set redirects on my old site to bring viewers to the new one. Soon I'll migrate all my code over so it will be available for download.