Appendix: Importing from other CMSes

So you want to move an old Wordpress or Movable Tyoe site over to Blueprint. You can import the data from your old site into a new Blueprint site using a rake task called "importer".

Before you can import the data, it needs to be exported to XML format and zipped into a TGZ or ZIP file format. A shell script has been provided for this task. However, there are a few requirements for this to work.

Requirements for exporting data

1. Your wordpress or movable type site must connect to a MySQL database.
2. It needs to be running on a Linux, Unix, or Mac OS X machine.
3. You will need SSH access to your web server.
4. You need to find out the MySQL connection details. These will be in your wp-config.php file. If you can't run the script on your web server, you could get around this importing the data into a database on your local machine (provided you are running Mac OS X or Linux) and running the export script from there.

Ruby gems required

You must have the following ruby gems installed on your machine before running the importer rake task.

• archive-tar-minitar
• zlib
• rubyzip
• rexml

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