Post first, upgrade later
“Know when not to start upgrading.” Ignore that message about the out of date version!
Well I didn’t listen.
Our web host provider, BlueHost has very nicely added a new scripting program, SimpleScripts, that installs various web programs for us, like WordPress, Joomla, ZenCart, etc. I have irritated my friends for years with all my hype about how great BlueHost is, and so of course this should be a great addition to their service. For a couple of the programs the installation went like a breeze. Faster and more up-to-date than Fantastico, which wasn’t bad at installing, just slow at recognizing new versions. I was tired of manually upgrading because of that. So I thought to myself, yay, this is the answer to all my time-consuming manual upgrades.
…..because you know those folks tend to upgrade frequently…..
Well, it didn’t work. I first tried an install and named my own databases so I know what the heck database goes with what blog. No way. config file not found. So I asked Simple Scripts to do a new install and control everything (so I could see how it worked). No way again. Huh? Now the login file wasn’t found. Looked around the WordPress forums, found a few ideas but no answers that worked. Went to the BlueHost forums, no answers there either.
Sheesh. After three hours, I went back to the manual install and created a new database. Name the database here, add a user there, unzip, upload, add a few lines to config.php, dum dee dum… Point to the install file, and presto! In ten minutes I had the new installation running. Upgrading the old took a bit longer, but nowhere near the time to use the installer. Still can’t figure out what is wrong. I still think BlueHost is the best thing in host servicing, because they got right on the problem and had the same thing happen that I did. They are working on fixing what they can, and the rest is up to SimpleScripts. Guess I’ll go back to manual upgrading.
The most humorously annoying thing is that it took me even longer to sit here and complain about it than it did to do the manual upgrade. Now I’ve spent four hours on it, when all I wanted to do was write a short entry here about how glad I was that Cyan is trying to keep the Uru Community together on one server if they possibly can. A bit about their post yesterday on the MOUL forums, to be exact. Heh, I still have to add that entry here.
Next time I take my own advice.