I finally found a way to redirect my old archive to wordpress. And it was very simple to do actually. No hassle with .htaccess or anything else.

Just republish the entries with a redirect template within MovableType and I was ready.

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httpd is showing me a lot of zombies the last 2 or 3 days
when checking with ps -aux I see apache …….. “[host] <defunct>”
checking pstree -lp I see that httpd is creating them

httpd is |-httpd(9773)-+-host(10896)
       |              |             |-host(10966)
       |              |             |-host(11015)
       |              |             |-host(11117)
       |              |             |-host(11518)
       |              |             |-host(11591)
       |              |             |-host(11709)
       |              |             |-host(11873)

etc…

top shows me:
382 zombie processes at this time.

Of course I can restart the httpd process (which is does itself every night)

but I want to know; what are zombies, what are they doing and does it hurt?

if it’s not something okay how to get rid of it ?

It’s probably due to ‘Wordpress Weblog’ software as I see the live - hits an checking the zombie counting with TOP
Some hours later: I found the issue. Zombies were created due to an incorrect configured plugin (smartarchives) together with the exec-php plugin. the directive to the archive folder was incorrect. The mod_rewrite did show a page.. but .. not the correct one I just discovered (duhhh*) ..

fixing path, restart httpd .. tadaaaaaaahhhh (still some zombies there but not that much).  Seems that more people have this issue. In certain situations, which are unclear, the zombies appear. with following crontab you can remove them:

*/10 * * * * ps auxw|grep apache| awk ‘$10 !~ /0:00/ {print $2}’|xargs kill -9 2> /dev/null

so to make long story short … I think I have to live with it, or someone must have an alternative solution

 

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Anyone outthere with css knowledge and want to help with Wordpress Theme? I have some ‘minor issues’

help appreciated

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Available to the public: my modified Wordpress 2.0 theme based on the great Leia theme/

download here Version 1.0 of my Modified theme.

I am using the following plugins:

• SiFR for the flashy Topic Title (CG FlashyTitles)
• Lightbox 2.0 for the nice image popup
• Smart Archives to have an archive page

There are some issues with the black box (comments/categories etc.) going through an image when it’s floating right. When the image is a the left, no problem. So help is appreciated. Download this theme. Kuddos to Leia.

Note: the CSS still contains portugese names, but the main info is translated into English.

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Wow .. it’s a change .. A change how WordPress is working.

I like the plugin features and the way stuff is working together. Up to know nobody seems to care of my switch. ;-)

Slowly the Google and MSN search engines are finding the new PlayGround URL and I am indexed. I grabbed some CSS of ‘Geenstijl’ to see how they used the border around their pix. Thanks guys ;-) That worked for me!

 

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Vandaag is dan de dag dat AroundMyRoom Weblog omschakeld naar WordPress. En z’n naam omgedoopt heeft van AroundMyroom Weblog naar
AroundMyroom’s Playground. Gewoonweg omdat AroundMyRoom’s Playground veel meer is dan een weblog alleen. Ik heb continue zoveel projecten lopen wat hier beschreven wordt dat het meer mijn speeltuin is dan mijn weblog. Vandaar, PlayGround.

Waarom een omschakeling naar WordPress als ik al vanaf 2001 (het begin van MT) met Movabletype werk?
Eigenlijk is het zeer simpel: Movabletype was een uitdaging om met Perl te werken en om de grenzen van mijn server systemen te leren kennen (ik draai op eigen beheerder server(s)) die gewoon thuis draaien.
Vanaf dat Movabletype een betaalde weblog tool begon te worden begon e.e.a. mij al tegen te staan, maar goed de support was op dat moment goed en ik kon voor redelijk weinig geld de Movabletype tool kopen.

Movabletype heeft altijd redelijk goed werk verricht alleen waren er een paar eigenschappen die me niet bevielen:

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