Just finished the upgrade for Movable Type from version 2.661 to 3.14. Had some temporary problems with the upgrade in the beginning. The script mt-upgrade30.cgi just gave a server error whenever it ran so the upgrade was not possible. The solution for that was, I had to copy the MT 3.14 files into the old directory structure on a local hard disk and after deleting the whole MT directory on the web server, I copied the whole local directory to the server. Basically, doing the copy & replace of the old 2.661 files on my PC instead of the server. After that, running mt-upgrade30.cgi and mtupgrade31.cgi was fine.
So the moral… backup before you upgrade..
Brian on the internet
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