11Nov
After two days of mental torture and disturbing people at unholy hours, I found the solution! The website I’m working on has successfully been migrated back to Wordpress. I tried Joomla for awhile but somehow their complicated CMS is too much for me. To uninstall it manually was a nightmare. If only I have dug in deeper, I would have found that automatic uninstall script lurking around Fantastico. Well, I’m learning each time I try to mess up with the system. And I thank God for web-savvy friends.
Let me share my latest finds to untechie minions out there. One of them might just stumble upon this and thank me someday for documenting my misery.
When you see this error “You cannot install more than one script in the root directory of a domain” while trying to install Wordpress through Fantastico, don’t panic. Here’s the remedy I found:
1. Access your cPanel and open the File Manager;
2. Go to .fantasticodata in your Home Directory;
3. Delete all the files inside this directory.
4. Drink coffee, juice or tea
09Sep
The first thing I saw when I accessed my other website’s dashboard this morning are those nagging yellow banners telling me to upgrade my current WordPress version one level higher. It has been barely a month since my last upgrade from WordPress 2.6 to 2.6.1. These web savvy guys have just released WordPress 2.6.2 today. If you have that WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin with you, the shift would be just piece of cake. The news has not actually reached my other website yet, meaning this molten hot news just came out of the WP oven.
Here’s why WP asks you to upgrade. To quote:
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password. Stefan Esser will release details of the complete attack shortly. The attack is difficult to accomplish, but its mere possibility means we recommend upgrading to 2.6.2. Read more here.
It’s all about your website’s security and providing a blanket to prevent attackers from hacking your accounts and a cure to persistent bugs.
13Aug
Finally, I have decided to upgrade this website to WordPress 2.6 two days ago after giving it much thought. I had a pretty bad experience of backing up my files and accidentally deleting my images when I upgraded from WP 2.1 to 2.5 before. From then on, every upgrade notice sent chills down my spine so I just simply ignored them.
But thank God for someone who invented WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin. It made my life easier after that very short and smooth transition. I was waiting for my screen to go blink-blink but it did not. My files were safe. It was definitely sweat-free compared to the agony of doing manual upgrades. No FTP clients needed.
Here’s how the process takes place:
Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
Puts the site in maintenance mode.
De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
Upgrades wordpress files.
Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
Re-activates the plugins.
If you haven’t updated yours, go get the plugin now.
