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Episode: 1607
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Title: HPR1607: Migrating from Drupal 6 to Nikola
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1607/hpr1607.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 05:44:27
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It's Tuesday 30th on September 2014.
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This is an HPR episode 1600 and 7 entitled, Migrating from Rupal 6 to Nicola.
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It is hosted by Johan and is about 10 minutes long.
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Feedback can be sent to Johan.verv at email.com or by leaving a comment on this episode.
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The summary is, I explain how I migrated my Rupal 6 to Nicola.
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Hello, this is Johan here again for Hacker Public Radio.
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I'm going to talk about how I migrated my blog from Rupal 6 to Nicola.
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You might have heard about Nicola on episode 1577 of HPR.
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It is a static website generator.
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First of all, why did I migrate?
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Mainly because I had some issues with my Rupal blog.
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The way I want to write texts is not very compatible with the way Rupal works.
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I want to write text when I am offline, like for example on a train.
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I want to use film for writing, because I really like that editor.
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And I want to use Git to manage different revisions of what I write, because it often
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takes a lot of editing before I am satisfied.
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I used to have a git repository to write my blog posts, and when I was happy with the
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text, I copied pasted it into a Rupal web interface.
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This is a kind of tedious.
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So I saw the light when I heard HPR 1577, in which Gitterman talked about Nicola.
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He convinced me that I needed to use a static website generator for my blog.
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So I migrated my blog from Rupal 6 to Nicola, and I will tell you how I did this.
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Maybe this is of interest for other HP listeners.
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First of all, some details about the Rupal site I migrated.
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I did not have node revisions on my Rupal site.
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My Rupal site had one vocabulary.
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This was used to assign text to each post.
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I did not use page aliases.
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So each post I had had a URL like JohanV.org slash node slash 195.
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Probably also mentioned that I used Pandoc version 1.12.3.3 to convert the HTML of the
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nodes to restructure text.
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That's a format that Nicola uses by default.
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If you have another version of Pandoc, you probably have to tweak the script I used.
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So for the migration, I first of all created a new subdomain for the blog, blog. JohanV.org.
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Then I used a script that creates a blog post for every published Rupal node on my Rupal site.
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The script was created with a lot of trial and error.
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It can probably use some improvements.
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I invite you to take a look at it and send me pull requests.
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The script sends queries to the database of the Rupal instance to do the following.
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It gets the timestamp title and text for each node.
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With this metadata, it creates RST document.
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Then there is a lot of manipulations on the node content before it adds the manipulated
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content to the document.
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So these lots of manipulations are the following, a conversion from HTML to RST.
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Some fixes in line endings, a conversion to convert references to other posts from
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the old format, node slash post ID, to the new format.
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It also fixes some issues with blogs with literal code in the blog posts.
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And it converts links to YouTube videos.
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I won't read out the whole script because that wouldn't make a lot of interesting radio.
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But I will put a link in the show notes.
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The script is rather ugly.
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You will have to edit the first lines describing how you can connect to the database.
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It assumes your credentials are in the My.CNF file.
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You will also have to specify where the output file should go.
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By default, I put them in slash TMP slash out.
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You will probably have to tweak the script to adapt it to your needs, but you will have
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a starting point.
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The script converts each node, for example, uonv.org slash node slash 195 to a blog post.
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This way, I could easily convert hyperlinks to other posts to the corresponding HTML page
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of the new blog.
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On the location of my old blog, I put an HD access file that will redirect all requests
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in the form of slash node slash number to the correct page on the new blog.
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I will also put this HD access file in the show notes.
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With the combination of the script and the HD access file, 90 percent of the migration
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was very easy, but as always, the remaining 10 percent needs some manual work.
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Like for example, I had some YouTube links containing underscores.
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My conversion script converts them to backslash underscore, which wasn't right.
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There were too many of them, so I fixed these use manually.
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Another thing I had to do manually was migrating the attachments and the images to the new
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site.
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I didn't have too many of them, so I didn't need to write a script for those.
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So this was how I migrate my site from Drupal 6 to Nikola.
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I hope you found it interesting.
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If you want to, you can comment on this episode on blog.uamv.org slash Drupal-Nikola.
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You can use the discuss thingy over there, or if you don't want to use this because you
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can also send me a pull request because all the sites can be found on GitHub.
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I want to thank Hacker Public Radio, first of all for introducing me to Nikola, and of
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course, HPR allows me to share how I did my migration with you.
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So if you have something interesting to tell, please submit an episode to HPR yourself.
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If I can do this, you can certainly do this too.
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This was Uamv for HPR, signing off.
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