Dave Page » wordpress http://chwalisz.org Stuff Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:18:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Upgrading Atahualpa http://chwalisz.org/2011/07/31/upgrading-atahualpa/ http://chwalisz.org/2011/07/31/upgrading-atahualpa/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:00:33 +0000 dave http://chwalisz.org/?p=776 Did you know that if you upgrade the Atahualpa theme from the Update page in the WordPress Admin, it deletes all the custom header images in your website?

Me neither.

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Did you know that if you upgrade the Atahualpa theme from the Update page in the WordPress Admin, it deletes all the custom header images in your website?

Me neither.

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Certainly.

“Backup your database. Read Backing Up Your Database for a detailed explanation.” Use Plugin WP-DB-Backup from http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/ Download it – make sure the copy is here. [...]]]>

Of course there is the old faithful Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion and Upgrading_WordPress_Extended, but there is a lot of fluff there. Old blogs are “You are using WordPress 2.9.1″. Show me the command lines.

Certainly.

  • “Backup your database. Read Backing Up Your Database for a detailed explanation.”
    • Use Plugin WP-DB-Backup from http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/
    • Download it – make sure the copy is here. Open it up.
  • “Backup ALL your WordPress files in your WordPress directory. Don’t forget your .htaccess file.”
    • Make a local shadow directory
      • $ rsync -vur ./sarajane/ ./backups/sarajane-snapshot-20110416/
    • Make a tar file for download for archive
    • $ tar cvf sarajane-snapshot-20110416.tar sarajane/
    • $ gzip sarajane-snapshot-20110416.tar
    • Verify the backups you created are there and usable. This is essential.
  • “Deactivate ALL your Plugins.”
  • “Ensure first four steps are completed. Do not attempt the upgrade unless you have completed the first four steps.”
  • Gotta upgrade the MYSQL Database? I did… The nice thing is, use two different ones. Since you saved the original directory, you can switch back to old state and db by replacing the directory.
    • Per Backing_Up_the_Database
      • $ mysqldump --add-drop-table -h mysqlservername  -u mysqlusername -p dbname> ms-db-backup-20110416.sql
  • edit wp-config.php (save the old one)
  • $ cp wp-config.php wp-config.php.save
  • $ vi wp-config.php ...
  • Use new SVN install into new folder
    • $ mkdir sarajane2
    • $ cd sarajane2
    • $ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.1.1 .
  • Copy these files from your old site to the new
    • $ export OLDBLOG=$HOME/sarajane
    • $ export NEWBLOG=$HOME/sarajane2
    • $ cp $OLDBLOG/wp-config.php $NEWBLOG/
    • $ ls $OLDBLOG/wp-content/cache
    • $ rm -rf $OLDBLOG/wp-content/cache
    • $ ls $OLDBLOG/wp-content/plugins/widgets
    • $ rm -rf $OLDBLOG/wp-content/plugins/widgets
    • $ rsync -vur --exclude=.svn/ $OLDBLOG/wp-content/ $NEWBLOG/wp-content
  • # this only is in older WP installs
    • $ rsync -vur --exclude=.svn/ $OLDBLOG/wp-images/ $NEWBLOG/wp-images
    • $ cp sarajane/.htaccess sarajane2
  • Swap directories
    • $ mv sarajane sarajane0
    • $ mv sarajane2 sarajane
  • Hit the upgrade link

Atualhalpa stores settings in the database, so you don’t have to copy anything.

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After weeks of search, found this post which sez PHP4 does not cut it.

What does 1&1 supply [...]]]>

So I upgrade to WP 3.0.1 using Atahualpa and cannot edit pages. Page, edit, left menu but no text, no nothing. Bad. Have to hold off upgrading all the other blogs. Upgrade Atahualpa to 3.5.3. No good.

After weeks of search, found this post which sez PHP4 does not cut it.

What does 1&1 supply by default?

(uiserver):xxxxxx:~/xxxxxx> php --version
PHP 4.4.9 (cgi) (built: Aug 12 2008 13:28:34)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

Update .htaccess. Add:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Works nice. Thank you very much.

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Get the code into the target dir: $ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9 .

Copy wp-config.php $ cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Get new secret keys: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

Edit wp-config.php $ vi wp-config.php Change dbname, hostname, password. Change 4 secret key lines to above lines.

Run config: http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

Set [...]]]>

Get the storage folder; redirect the domain there;

Get the code into the target dir:
$ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9 .

Copy wp-config.php
$ cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Get new secret keys:
https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

Edit wp-config.php
$ vi wp-config.php
Change dbname, hostname, password.
Change 4 secret key lines to above lines.

Run config:
http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

Set up the profile pages; add default user;

Install Atahualpa Theme and configure.

  1. Download zip into blog base dir using wget or ftp,
  2. $ /blog > unzip atahualpa344.zip -d ./wp-content/themes

More Info:
Installing using Subversion (WordPress Codex)
Installing WordPress (WordPress Codex)
Updating WordPress using Subversion (WordPress Codex)

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