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It didn’t escape my attention that the autoinstaller for WordPress supplied by my host, servage.net (nb: link includes my customer code to ‘earn free hosting’…), was out of date at the time I did the installation. When viewing the admin pages it reminded me constantly that an update was available, and that there were urgent security fixes…

Yeah, okay, so maybe someone could hack my shiny new blog. Millions might die! Maybe not, but if for nothing other than to see what it would actually take, I decided to go through the process.

Turns out that, if you haven’t installed a bunch of plugins (and at thos stage I don’t know what they possibly entail), it is pretty easy. One configuration file to keep track of (which you don’t especially need to worry about being overwritten, as the default file has a different name), and the contents of another directory (the uploaded images/whatever content). It does seem a bit silly, though, that this directory is not in the WordPress root – sense would suggest that having any non-WordPress-specific files as separate as possible.

I also backed up the MySQL database beforehand. While reading about that I found my way to an auto backup script, AutoMySQLBackup hosted on SourceForge.net, which I had a browse through and found a bug… so of course now I have a new SourceForge account – yet another thing I don’t need to keep track of, though perhaps it will encourage me to start a project!

At any rate, when all said and done… my blog seems to appear just as before, and this post will (hopefully!) prove to me that it is still kinda working. :o)

-G.

Posted in: Databases, Site Maintenance, Software by subpixel / Tags: MySQL, servage.net, SourceForge, unix script, WordPress