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worldrider

Feb 22 2006, 03:14 PM

I'm a newbie at templates, so thank you in advance for your patience.

I'm in the process of getting ready to upgrade my 3.17 installation to 3.2. That is I've made a dB dump, backed up the entire site etc. But in reviewing the upgrade documentation I noticed that it mentioned this:

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If you have made use of Movable Type's facility for alternate application templates through the use of the `AltTemplatePath` configuration directive, you should move these files aside since they were created for previous versions of Movable Type and are not compatible with MT 3.2.

I did the design but did not create nor modify templates for my site http://www.worldrider.com/; so I have no idea what the AltTemplatePath is, nor how would I find out if this was used in my templates?

Secondly, I noticed that a similar warning heeded me to watch for modultes:

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If you have added any special modules into your existing extlib folder, use caution when uploading the new files, to make sure you don't inadvertently overwrite any files already there which you need to keep. If you've customized your search templates by editing the files in search_templates, do **not** select this folder from the distribution for upload, or you will **lose** your changes to these files.

I can see that there are a few modules when I select view templates. How do I find out if these are in my exitlib folder and what impact or functioanlity would these offer?

So before I move with transfering the new files over my existing MT installation, I want to make sure I'm not going to regret things later. While I have backups, I don't want to have to use them

Thanks

sarah

Feb 22 2006, 08:11 PM

AltTemplates are used within the application itself (ie, changing the look of the Edit Entry screen, etc), they are not used for your weblog pages. These would have to be manually added, perhaps part of a plugin installation. If you did not do this, you probably don't have any.

With regard to modules in the /extlib/ directory, this refers to perl modules, not Template Modules. These are used for any plugins, which require special modules, or if your server was missing any required modules, etc. If you didn't add anything special to the /extlib/ directory, you should be fine.

With regard to /search_templates/ this is something you should be careful of. The files in the upgrade distribution are designed to work with the Movable Type 3.2 templates, and so will not match the current design of your search template files. If you're not going to upgrade your weblog templates to the 3.2 defaults, you'll probably not want to upload the new /search_templates/ files (or perhaps rename them so they don't overwrite your existing ones).

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