Mt 3.2 Broke My Site: Type 500 Errors And .static Options

[JBoivin]

Hi,

My host moved to a new server and I had to re-install MT - in the process, I installed MT 3.2 (as a new install not an upgrade - I was using 3.15 before). MT got all my settings from my MySQL database and everything seemed to work fine. My website's pages ends in .php, even if I don't really use php in them (except for some includes), nor they use dynamic data. It's only because I wanted them to be ready for some new functionnalities I'd like to add in the future.

Prior to upgrading, I published my pages statically, with linked templates.

After the upgrade, I always get Type 500 errors (Internal Server Error) when I access my site. I managed to get it working by manually settings all my linked template to publish dynamically. However, I have a second blog that is embedded as an include in my homepage. When I repeated the process of having this second blog to publish dynamically, all my published pages got the .static suffix added to their filenames - breaking the site. Since then, I only managed to get Internal Server Errors, I have all those .static files polluting my server, and I realized that MT recreated some folders for some categories that included accented letters (not everybody speaks English, ya know ).

So my website is completely useless, I don't know how to troubleshoot it and I'm getting quite discouraged. I don't mind re-installing everything, but I want to know how not to repeat the same problems.

BTW, I found the documentation for MT 3.2 hard to navigate and less helpful and complete than before.

Thanks for your help,

Jonathan