Working on getting everything moved over to the new server hardware, and while it’s all going fairly smoothly, the first “off the cliff” test wasn’t exactly a smashing success. I redirected my ports to the new server, shut down the old one, and then tried browsing, etc.
Wordpress freaked out, and thought that it hadn’t been configured yet. Got that all set up with a new username and password, and my posts were all still there, but my stylesheets (CSS) had ‘asploded.
That was due to my forgetting to set the security right to be the IUSR_servername rights, instead of IUSR_oldservername. Doh.
But we’re getting there. Slowly but surely.
- Windows Server 2003 – Running (DNS is still a little silly, but that’s due to my lack of Goode Brane, not because of Win2k3
- Exchange 2003 – Running
- PHP is running happily.
- MySQL is running version 4.1, which isn’t compatible with phpmyadmin (and since I don’t know diddly-foo about SQL from a command line, I’ve gotta have that running). Probably going back to a 3.x.
Bit by bit, I’m getting it there. Public Enemy playin’ as I go, ’cause mofugga, tha’s how I roll…
Luckily, while I was trying to get stuff working, I read back through some of my old posts and found some of the problems (blogging: the new paperless office). Actually, I get a lot of Google referrals on similar problems. I think if everything at-home sysadmin posted stuff they ran into and couldn’t find results for, we’d be… Well, we’d be Linux. :)
April 25th, 2005 at 7:00 am
Heh…when I’m at work, looking for info on some Windows error or trying to get some device working in Windows, I actually have to wade through a lot of helpful pages from Linux people before I get to the page that has something about Windows.
Congrats on the new server. New hardware, too?
April 25th, 2005 at 7:03 am
My main complaint is that most of the sites that have/had current and useful information have gone to a pay structure, forcing folks like me who don’t wanna pay to look up information about why something won’t work, have to look somewhere else. Yes, there’s the free Knowledge Base from Microsoft, but it’s actually a fairly weak search engine they’ve got going.