I decide to upgrade my MoveableType to 3.0, and had, shall we say, some difficulties. Once I did the upgrade, I couldn’t get back into my blog. It would display, but I couldn’t log in. I fiddled with it for a while, reinstalled my backup of the previous edition, and still couldn’t log in. That all took about an hour last night. With Birdie and his bride-to-be visiting, I really couldn’t devote any more time to it.
This morning I tried again with my work computer to see if maybe there was an issue with the computer at home. No dice. SixApart, developers of the MT program, were of no assistance. I checked their forum, and it appears many people have had the same issue. The response from SixApart? “This is, after all, a Developers Version,” as if that made it okay for there to be a bug that won’t allow you to even get in. A bug, by the way, that didn’t exist in the previous edition.
What I did find after a bit of searching was a handy script called MT-Medic which allows you to get access to the user configuration settings for MT and do things like changing the password. So, if you do the upgrade, be sure to download this script and run it. I doubt you’ll be able to access your site without it any time soon.
Thanks to the programmer who put this script together.