If you can’t read this, raise your hand
Thu 22 Feb 2007, 10:55 pm
Edited 03 Mar 2007: *Sigh*. Now WordPress tells us WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2:
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
So do it now. (Unless the cracker got the blog and 2.1.2 instead, and this is some kind of complex phishing thing…nah. Upgrade.)
Edited 25 Feb 2007: I seem to have done the upgrade properly tonight.
So I went to upgrade to WordPress 2.1.1 this evening. And ended up somehow nuking the whole site.
Luckily, plan B — “replace the gaping, smoking hole that used to be the weblog with the backup you just made” — seems to have worked out. That’s why step one in an upgrade is always “make a backup of the site while you still can.”
If you notice anything weird, please drop me a line at steve [at] stevelawson.name
I think I’ll go read a book. On paper.
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- Comments? 6
Sorry if this is a stupid question Steve, but how are you backing up your WP blog? The built-in backup is still repeatedly failing me. I have tried using FF2 on the PC and it consistently fails. I have tried FF2, Safari and Camino on the Mac and they all repeatedly fail.
Previous versions were just as bad; I might get a successful backup one time out of about 25 tries, if I’m lucky. This is probably my biggest complaint with WP!
Anyway, wondering if you have a better way. I’d like to upgrade myself but I’m not going to until I have a current backup.
Comment by Mark — February 23, 2007 @ 6:19 pm
Not a stupid question at all.
I used to have trouble with the backup plugin, but it has worked better since my upgrade to 2.1.
In this case, though, I didn’t use that backup. Instead, I had FTP’d a complete duplicate copy of my site to my local machine. That takes care of all of the WP files–which seemed to be all I needed in this case–but not the actual MySQL database.
When it all went to hell last night, I just renamed the bad directory, and uploaded the backup. It all seems OK, though I think I’m having some permissions problems that I might need some help with.
You can back up the database without using the backup plugin, too, with PHPMyAdmin. You are on LISHost, right? Ask Blake & crew for info.
If anyone else has any pointers, I’d be happy to hear them.
Comment by Steve Lawson — February 23, 2007 @ 9:28 pm
Thanks, Steve.
Comment by Mark — February 24, 2007 @ 8:24 am
Awh… I feel you man. Great that you backed up, even better that you reminded us all. This is why I fear the updates tho!
In my case I have gone with DreamHost to host my site, and use filezilla as my FTP application. I sign in to FZ and copy my “jennimi.com” folder to a nice toasty place on my desktop. Takes a few minutes then I can get back to mucking my nose around things. Speaking of….
(ps, Apologies for my off topic-ness, but I REALLY like your real time comments preview.. can you point me to a plugin, or was this part of your theme? Again apologies…)
Comment by jennimi — February 24, 2007 @ 12:47 pm
jennimi, no need to apologize. It is LiveCommentPreview. One little pet peeve of mine is that WP doesn’t have a default preview. So I installed this pretty early on. I lifted the idea from librarian.net.
Comment by Steve Lawson — February 24, 2007 @ 2:38 pm
hello! i’m over here! look! you can’t see my hand? MR. LAWSON! please get back to me at your earliest convenience. i look forward to hearing from you.
Comment by roscoe — February 26, 2007 @ 5:34 pm