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<\/div>\n\n<\/font> So let’s just itemize what I did to myself, shall we?:<\/p>\n and then ran the upgrade. <\/font>…and I totally <\/i>did it to myself.<\/p>\n Got it all back in this morning (thank goodness for One thing that was sorta scary (and I should keep in mind if I’m But usually, I’m really lucky and happy with WordPress (and again, it was not WP’s fault, it’s totally MINE).<\/p>\n So yeah. I’m going to get the new server going, first and foremost, and quit goofing around with the blog for a bit. I’ll still post (I hope) during January, but this whole migration from Server 2000 to Server 2003 (and Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003) has been kicking my butt for months now…<\/p>\n Oh, and Happy New Year everyone. I’ll do a proper “State of the Union” type post in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay, so anyone who’s ever worked with me, listened to me talk about work, or just stood next to me when there’s a decision to be made will know that I’m not the sort of person who usually Reads The Fine Manual when it comes to a lot of things. I tend to just sorta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWell, last night, I tried that with WordPress<\/a> 2.0 (the software that displays my blog on my home site<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n
\nHilarity ensued, let me ensure you.
\nIncluding, but not limited to, a 30-minute ABSPATH hunt (the location of the web site in general, meaning once the upgrade was completed, there was now way for the blog to find it’s own files<\/i>).<\/p>\nChefBoyArdee<\/strike> PHPMyAdmin<\/a>)
\nI managed to backup my (very sadly broken) database, and then copy\/paste the parts I needed (liked the settings, options, POSTS!<\/b> and comments). The really scary thing was that any large paste (of maybe 15 posts at a time) would cause a connection reset in PhpMyAdmin (at least, under Firefox browser).<\/p>\nstupid<\/strike> brave enough to try that at any point in the future):
\nI’ve got two plugins installed: WP-StatTraq<\/a> (for statistics and inbounding linking information) and WPHashCash<\/a> (for anti-comment-spam, so please comment on this at my Home Blog<\/a> and see if everything’s still working).
\nI *think* the combination of these two plugins, and their nature of storing data into the database (which means every visit I get to the site gets an entry into the database, and every comment attempt also goes in, I think), lead to a much larger database file (once exported) than I would normally have had. Subsequently, when I tried to import the exported file back into the DB, it choked at the 5minute mark (300second timeout during a single request).<\/p>\n