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Upgraded successfully to version 2.9.2!

codo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:54:54 +0000

After waiting for nearly an hour for the database to be deleted I have now completed the upgrade to version 2.9.2 of WordPress!

Thankfully, once the new database had been created (this time a flashy new MySQL v5 database) it was all easy. Edited the wp-config to point to the new database, exported the old database and imported the data into the new one, ran some tests and all was running well!

The WordPress Auto Upgrade then ran completely smoothly.

Hopefully with MySQL now running on v5 the next upgrade will have no problems what-so-ever. Well, we will see!!

Issues upgrading WordPress to version 2.9.2

codo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:34:07 +0000

Having finally decided that I really should be keeping my blog up-to-date with progress on the Kit Car, I decided I should upgrade to the latest version of WordPress.

For some reason this is never easy!! It turns out that I have been using a MySQL v4 database on my 1&1 hosting. Unfortunately, they are running a couple of sub-versions behind the minimum specification for the new version of WordPress.

So, rather than just being able to do the rather funky Auto Upgrade, I have to upgrade the a new MySQL database first.

This has ended up with some house-keeping, with some old content on my web-space being deleted. I am also planning to clean up the MySQL tables a bit as there are some left over from random projects in the past.

My main surprise is how long it takes for a database to be deleted at 1&1. I’ve now been waiting about 30 minutes and still nothing!!

Maybe I’ll start on the Kit Car blogging whilst I’m waiting!

Issues upgrading WordPress to version 2.8.1

codo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:33:43 +0000

Finally got round to doing the upgrade to WordPress 2.8.1 before I start some (hopefully) serious blogging on my latest project.

Unfortunately I came across a slight problem with WPAU (WordPress Automatic Upgrade). After a bit of google-ing I found other people have had the same issue. Mosher’sUnimaginativelyEntitledBlog thankfully came to the rescue.

This may only be a coincidence, but we seem to both be using 1and1 as our webhosting provider. The issue seems to come down to there being more than one version of PHP on the server. This confuses WPAU, which tries to use the wrong version. This can be forced to use the correct version by adding the following to your .htaccess file:

# Ensure PHP5 being used
# For WordPress auto upgrade
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

This also seems to have had the side-effect of speeding up page loads from WordPress as well. May have been causing more problems than I had realised.

Now the upgrade is completed, I can start blogging on my latest project!

Note: I take no responsibility for you messing up your .htaccess file. You should take backups before making any changes.

WordPress upgrade to version 2.7.1

codo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:25:29 +0000

Having not posted to my blog for a while, I had not realised quite how out of date it had become (both content and software!!), so I decided to try and rectify this.

Unfortunately, being based away from home for this week I didn’t have ready access to my webspace to perform the upgrade. Thankfully I found the perfect Plugin, WordPress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU).

Maybe I’m a bit cynical, but I doubted that this would be able to do what it claimed on the tin, but after a bit of Google-ing I decided to give it a go. How wrong can you be?!? This worked amazingly!! Not sure I’ve had an easy upgrade on any other bit of software (and this included commercial products). There was one tiny issue, with my Plugins not being re-started, but further investigation showed that there were newer version of these that I should have been using, so this may have actually saved me a load of hassle.

All in all, very impressed and look forward to my next upgrade!!