I'm going to have to change the domain name completely rather than go from org to com etc. and I am worried about losing traffic.

And guess who the clueless webhost is? Me.

(Well, VPS manager, anyway). Not to worry. I'll live with it

Philip

Dont know if there is a way round this but dont think people would check blog without the / anyways

So http://www.londonkoreanlinks.net/blog/anything-you-like is redirected to http://www.londonkoreanlinks.net/anything-you-like. And http://www.londonkoreanlinks.net/blog/ (with slash) redirects as well.

But http://www.londonkoreanlinks.net/blog (without slash) doesn't work. I've tried adding "Redirect /blog http://www.londonkoreanlinks.net/" to the .htaccess file in the root directory (I've tried putting it (a) before and (b) after the WordPress permalink coding) and it still doesn't work. Any thoughts?

Cheers

Good luck with the rest of it

What I had been doing was search for [ ’ ] in the sql text file and replace with [ ' ]. Seemed logical enough. But that single apostrophe really screwed up the MySQL when I tried reimporting. Examining the export file more closely I noticed that actually where the browser delivers a single apostrophe the SQL query has two.

I therefore found that if I replace [ ’ ] with [ '' ] (that's two single apostrophes with no space in between) it all seemed to work when I reimported the table back into the database.

Similarly replacing [ “ ] and [ ” ] with [ " ], and [ – ] with [ -- ] ironed out most of the other problems. So now I'm just faced with the much smaller task of cleaning up the Asian characters, which has got to be a manual task.

Cheers

Philip

I did try that, but it created huge numbers of errors in the SQL syntax when I tried re-importing it. I could see it was going to take me just as long to manually fix the SQL syntax as it is going to take me to go through and correct the screwy characters manually.

So I've decided that I'm just going to go ahead and polish the final results over the next few weeks.

Philip

try that – export the database and open it in the textpad editor and then find each messed up sequence and repair all references to it in the file and once you've fixed them all reupload it

Here’s an example page from the live site

Here’s what it looks like once I’ve done a dummy run of the move.

The steps were

1: export the whole database from the live site using phpmyadmin (it’s at this stage that the characters get garbled)

2: open the resulting sql file in a text editor to change all instances of http://www.londonkoreanlinks.net/blog to test.londonkoreanlinks.net (I haven’t bothered copying over all the images, hence most of the images won’t show in the test site).

3: drop all the tables from the database of a brand new fantastico WP2.3.3 instal.

4: make sure the new database is set to utf8 collation

5: import the sql file

6: run the plugin, and hope for the best.

[I also tried an additional step between 2 and 3 before I tried the plugin: open the sql file in a text editor and do a bulk search and replace of all the screwy characters I knew about and replacing them with the apostrophes I wanted. Unfortunately that made the import at stage 5 fall over with too many syntax errors]

Like I said, I’m reconciled to some heavy labour here, but thanks very much for the suggestion.

Cool site

Thanks.

I'll approach this with minimum expectations, because then I won't be disappointed (and because I think the real problem is that I screwed up the collation of my database big time, including the fact that I changed the collation from latin1 to utf8 sometime over the lifetime of the blog).

But I'll give it a go, and if it works, you're an official superhero.

Philip

Check out this article :

Fixing the  and †problem in wordpress

Kev:)

I've tried that three-line .htaccess file in the /blog/ directory on a test site and it works like a charm. Let's hope it works when I do it for real.

Now if you could just solve the problem I where all the curly apostrophes and Asian script get garbled on export from the database, I would be very happy. But no matter how much I play with the collation I can't get it right I'm kind of resigned to doing a whole load of manual corrections.