MT-ShrinkFInfo

A Tool for Shrinking an enlarged FileInfo DB for Movable Type 3.1.

ShrinkFInfo.zip

Changes

• 0.01(2004.11.28):
  • First Release.
• 0.02(2004.11.28):
  • A fix to stop unnecessary shrinking if possible. A little bit of code cleanup.
• 0.03(2004.11.29):
  • Add a plugin interface and an experimental access restriction using a cookie.
• 0.04(2004.12.10):
  • A little bit improvement on the plugin user-interface.

Overview

If using Movable Type 3.1 with BerkeleyDB, you will encounter a problem that db/fileinfo.db is enlarging whenever you repeat rebuilding. This problem makes it slow to rebuild contents, and even worse it may cause HTTP Error 500 which means Internal Server Error.

MT-ShinkFInfo allows you to shrink an enlarged db/fileinfo.db. It employs MT Perl API so as to provide a safer and easier method to shrink fileinfo.db, rather than removing it manually. And it also provides a plugin interface to invoke this easily from the management screen of Movable Type.

Installation

• Please check first that DataSource of mt.cfg is specified with a full path. (e.g. DataSource /FULL/PATH/TO/DB)
• Unzip the MT-ShrinkFInfo archive into a temporary directory.
• Copy the ShrinkFInfo directory into the plugins directory under your MT home directory. The following is a reference image of directories.

mt + extlib
   + images
   + lib
   + php
   + plugins - ShrinkFInfo + plugin.pl
                           + mt-shrinkfinfo.cgi

{i} We recommend you to change ShrinkFInfo to another name as you like.

• And change the permission of mt-shrinkfinfo.cgi to be able to execute as a CGI script (chmod 755 or 700 in unix parlance).
• Go to the management screen, and just click "ShrinkFInfo Plugin" to shrink fileinfo.db.

See Also

• MT-ShrinkFInfo.ja_JP

License

This code is released under the Artistic License. The terms of the Artistic License are described at http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html.

Author & Copyright

Copyright 2004, Hirotaka Ogawa (hirotaka.ogawa at gmail.com)