Yet Again Dangerous Life (Upgrading WordPress)

Ilkka — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:27:59 +0000

Once again I lead a dangerous life and upgraded WordPress to version 2.7 (“Coltrane”).

The upgrade was as smooth as ever (okay, a few glitches but anyway).

First impressions?
Hmm, new admin interface (dashboard), lots of new stuff. Improved UI, I like it.

Pretty swell.

Will write more about this if I manage to find the time somewhere…

.htaccess and WordPress 2.5.

Ilkka — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:09:05 +0000

Working with WordPress is at best very, very rewarding. At worst it’s a total nightmare.

As it was now.

Ok, I installed the most recent version of WordPress, 2.5.1. Upgraded, downloaded some themes, installed stuff, fetched some content from my old blog.

Then, unfortunately, I stumbled head first on the pretty permalinks. Yeah, yeah, woe the vanity.

Anyway, I ran to “Settings” of my little sweet blog, tried to find the old spot. Wasn’t there.

Spotted it. Put on the fancy url’s. Then, BOOM!

Surprise, surprise, it didn’t work.

Luckily this was not the first time, so I went in search of the infamous .htaccess -file. Didn’f find it, ’cause WordPress wrote it in the wrong directory. Set the permissions on my ftp-client to show all. Searched again.

Hey, there it was! In the wrong fucking directory. How nice.

Copied it, deleted the .htaccess. Everything back to normal?

Yep, for a while.

Then, again, the same thing. “Error 404” (followed and preceded by some Internal Server Errors), which is always nice to see. So, another iteration, this time writing an empty .htaccess to that wrong directory and setting it’s write permissions to another mode.

Now it should be working.

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Yet Again Dangerous Life (Upgrading WordPress)

.htaccess and WordPress 2.5.