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Why is it that the automatic WordPress upgrade fails?

By Dennis Guten on December 11, 2010 2 Comments

WordPress Fail!

After finally getting my blog back again after it was hacked a long time back I had it working on WordPress 3.01 a few weeks ago. Yea, a small victory.

Then WordPress 3.02 came out and I went to do the “automatic upgrade”, which just sat there and did nothing, gave me no error messages to let me know it was failing, did nothing. I finally gave up, logged out, searched a few forums and finally came upon the answer that “if it fails, don’t worry, you can just upload the files manually.”

Great.

So we fixed a blog my wife has, e-scentiallyyours.com, which was also hacked, plus two new ones she has created and started, ruthieguten.com and findcityexperts.com. Guess what, all three of those have the very same problem as mine, no automatic upgrade! Then WordPress 3.03 quickly followed 3.02 and we now had four WordPress blogs to update manually. What joy. A Saturday afternoon gone to deleting and uploading gazillions of files on four blogs.

At least it’s all done now and Ruthie now has her very own install of Transmit (Mac) for FTP and a lesson on how to upgrade.

Now we sit and wait for 3.04, oy.

Anybody have any advice on what to check in WordPress for what is causing it to fail? The sites are hosted on 1and1.com and the install is standard except for 2-3 plug-ins being used.

Categories : WordPress
Tags : e-scentiallyyours.com, findcityexperts.com, ruthieguten.com, Transmit, WordPress

The end of the free ride

By Dennis Guten on December 9, 2006 No Comments

Well, it looks like my free ride with my internet hosting provider is finally coming to an end!

It was a long 3 years since a friend in class at Richland College told me I had until midnight to go to a web site called 1and1.com because they were giving away a free web hosting package with (at the time) a whopping 500mb of space. It was a promotion they had as a startup and as soon as I got home I popped online and went to their site and registered, getting confirmed about 11:45pm that night.

This has been my hosting provider ever since and I still have some of that original 500mb open!

My freebie time is coming to an end with the free package, so today I have the fun task of downloading all my web content and files to my Powerbook g4. Fun.

I have to back it all up so I can sign up for a larger package (something like 500GB or a similar daunting number) that will support more than the single MYSQL database that this blog is being hosted on. I need the additional databases so I can develop more fun stuff as I learn about PHP and MYSQL. The wife wants me to start developing the e-scentiallyyours.com site so we can start selling her essential oils online that she gets from her supplier in the northwest.

This will be the beginning of a new venture for the both of us that will hopefully make us both independent for the future.

I have to back up all the files because the provider indicates that the site will be wiped clean when I change packages. Can’t take any chances there. I have a feeling this will be a long task today, but I have to do it so I might as well just shut up and do it.

So if the site goes down for a while you will now know why.

Categories : Cloud Software, Freelance, Ruthie, Web Design, WordPress
Tags : 1and1.com, database, e-scentiallyyours.com, Hosting, MYSQL, PHP, Powerbook, Ruthie

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