Comments on: Migrating from iBlog to WordPress

By: Tom Gilson

Tom Gilson — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:00:38 +0000

I'm looking for Agitprop, and the tyborg.com site has gone dark. Do you know where a person could get a copy? Thanks.

By: Muskie

Muskie — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:36:50 +0000

I did come across it in my searching today. There are two reasons I haven't used it, one I'm trying to learn something, there is no substitute for experience, yadda, yadda, yadda. One thing I've learned is PHP and MySQL is not as good of combo as say Java/WebObjects and FrontBase, at least not with my recent problems fresh in my mind. I'd still choose PHP over PERL though.

Secondly I'm trying to follow along with a book on PHP and MySQL and in order to make it go I needed certain versions of each plus configured just so, getting WordPress to work on top of all that is also a goal but is not the primary one.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:35:02 +0000

Why not try MAMP? It's a self-contained web development environment and includes a switch to toggle between PHP 4 or 5. I used it with WordPress, initially 1.5 then upgraded to 2.0 and it worked very well.

By: Muskie

Muskie — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:15:42 +0000

I did start a thread over there too. But I've also kept Googling and searching their forum. I might try WordPress 1.5. something if I can find a copy then trying to upgrade, but perhaps tomorrow I've spent all day in front of my computer already...

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:53:22 +0000

Muskie, I've no idea what the problem might be I'm afraid. If the issue seems specific to installing/ configuring WordPress, your best bet might be the WordPress Support Forum.

By: Muskie

Muskie — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:56:17 +0000

I just spent a lot of time getting PHP and MySQL to work on my PowerBook. I followed these instructions. I now have
Apache/1.3.33, Mac OS X 10.4.7, PHP Version 5.1.4, and MySQL 4.1.20.

I downloaded the latest WordPress 2.0.3 which is newer than I have running on my actual webhost...

The error I get is:

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.

PHP, MySQL, and Apache are working, I created the database schema, I double checked my password and I tried putting wordpress in
/Library/Webserver/Documents/

and
~user/Sites/

I tried the URL with and without the IP address do I have some incompatability? I need PHP 5 to work on something else even though I have a lot more success getting PHP 4.something to go and that is what is running on my webhost...

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:51:31 +0000

Cool info, thanks. Curious though, as you are still using iBlog and Haloscan! Why haven't you switched over to Wordpress yet?

Also, I'm missing something... how does one go from Agitprop's iBlog-exported file into Wordpress? I don't see any import option in Wordpress anywhere.

Thanks for your help!

By: Helge Karl Nyhamn

Helge Karl Nyhamn — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:29:56 +0000

Have you tried the TikiWiki, how does it differ from WordPress. I know that TikiWiki works with PostgreSQL, a dbms that I prefer. According to the illustration TikiWiki works as WordPress. But are MarsEdit, Ecto and NetNewsWire working regardless of Blogging frontend?

Helge Karl

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Helge, I'm not familiar with TikiWiki or PostgreSQL. I am particularly interested in the Apache/ PHP/ MySQL combination as this seems to be a popular web development platform that is well supported via both online communities and books (search Amazon.co.uk for "mysql php" for example).

NetNewsWire is great; I paid for a license and get my money's worth. I tried the demos of MarsEdit and Ecto and both work as advertised (tested with a Blogger account).

I plan to buy a book on MySQL + PHP, and try a few of the various binaries until I can get it working (when I say "I give up" I rarely mean it :-)). Anyone got any good book recommendations?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Rob, there's a lot to like about iBlog. I'm personally waiting to see if version 2.0 addresses my main concerns; if so then I'll have no reason to migrate. If it doesn't then migration to WordPress will likely become more than an experiment.

You could use ecto as an agent to import your Agitprop-modified iBlog data into your WordPress blog.

Cheers, Bruce