Upgrading to WP 2.0

Lobsterman,

The instructions for upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0 are straigtforward,
as are the instructions for upgarding from 1.2 to 1.5.

THERE ARE NO INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPGRADING DIRECT FROM 1.2 to 2.0

Perhaps in your world seeking to clarify this point is
making “such a scare”, in mine it is being careful and your
overely dramatic response appears to be both ironic and a little rich bearing in mind your posting history, which shows a repeated failiure to bother to read the documentation.

So perhaps it is simple and perhaps it is not. I don’t intend to play guessing games.

Can someone who is in a postion to give me a definitive answer please do so.

Thanks,

MC.

Thanks Moshu

Greetings again.

I’d really like to get this server set up again along with my WP Blog. Any chance someone can answer my question in the post I made up above (11 posts above this one).

I sure would appreciate it, thanks.

I miss my blog hehe. /sighs

Ditto from me, Moshu. Thanks for pointing us to the archived version of 1.5.2.

tipunch has already mentioned the fix for not working localization but it’s actually more complicated if you consider different versions of PHP.

Here is the complete solution known to me so far:
//$MAGIC1 = (int)0x950412de; //bug in PHP 5
//$MAGIC1 = (int) – 1794895138; //bug in PHP 4.4.0
$MAGIC1 = 2500072158;

//$MAGIC2 = (int)0xde120495; //bug in PHP 5
//$MAGIC2 = (int) – 569244523;// bug in PHP 4.4.0
$MAGIC2 = 3725722773;

MAK,
I am not a server wizard, which means I would never dare to host my site ??
The only thing I can remember that if you have set MySQL 5 to “strict” mode there might be issues with the install.

I know the search is not functional for the moment, try Google by using:
site: www.ads-software.com/support mysql strict

Hey,

I upgraded from 1.5.2 to 2.0 this afternoon and it couldn’t have gone smoother. Everything started working on the first attempt and I just wnated to say thanks for a job well done ??

MAK: WordPress will work with MySQL 5 provided you do not use strict mode.

Got it working in about 30 seconds. Maybe a bit more or less. It even worked when I forgot to turn off the plugins.

Only have a small error showing, but I will try to fix it soon.

After upgrading, my links just got messed up on the Links page. :S

https://hsn.xeenat.com/links/

Can someone check? Every link is supposed to be below one another. I even entered a space in WP page editor but no luck. They’re all in straight line. :S

bk, the official support for K2 is here:

Thank you Skippy and Moshu.

You said it should work if I don’t set it to strict, roger that. I’m a newb at setting up this server stuff so hopefully I can figure out how to do that when the time comes.

Now about the PHP v5x does that work okay with WP 2.0 also?

EDIT: So how is everyone today? rofl Is anyone so bored and love challenges? hehe As I stated I am a newb at setting up this server stuff (MySQL, PHP, Apache). I had a friend set up my last configuration (before I had to do a system restore) but I can’t get a hold of him anymore. Was wondering if there is anyone knowledgeable at doing this blindfolded haha that maybe you can walk me through it so it gets done properly?

Otherwise I’m just going to take a newbie shot at this and hope I don’t blow up my system, /sighs

I already have the Apache server set up from the Ghost restore I did, I just need to add the new PHP and MySQL and then WordPress of course.

Anyone bored and game for some excitement. I’m a good listener and I follow through with directions.

/crosses fingers

Email me at MAK.Arizona at Gmail.com or reply here.

I know I know, don’t flame me, just thought I would try my luck and score me a helping hand. Amazingly but true hehe there are actually people who like doing this kind of stuff, please let me know if you are one of them. I would love to get this over and done with and back to blogging.

0-o

PS: And on likely chance I have to do this solo, what comes next after the Apache install, MySQL install then PHP or do the PHP first then the MySQL?

Much appreciated

I’ve had no luck upgrading. I’ve attempted to do so on four of my sites on two different servers — my home server (Redhat, MySQL 4, PHP 4, etc. — totally standard) and my DreamHost space. In terms of WP customization, all sites are quite different — some have no plugins, some half a dozen, some use my templates, some use the default, some have thousands of posts, some have just a half dozen, etc. I’ve explicitly followed the directions from the Codex, and I have the exact same problem every time.

Loading upgrade.php works. Clicking “Upgrade WordPress” (loading step=1) yields a blank page. Every. Single. Time.

I’ve gotten into a little debuggery, but the problem gets traced back into the bowels of WP’s code, at which point I’ve surrendered.

Shall I wait for WP 2.0.1? Or is there a known workaround?

An addendum to my post:

If I delete the entire cache directory (wp-content/cache/) and then immediately run upgrade.php?step=1, it works fine. The upgrade can proceed without difficulty. But then the site itself won’t run unless I repeatedly erase the cache directory. It’s as if the cache is being written (and it clearly is) but cannot be read from. I speculate that WordPress is using file_get_contents() (or a similar function) to retrieve the cache data. file_get_contents() was introduced in PHP v4.3, along with some other file-level data retrieval functions, and my servers may not properly implement that function.

I suggest that upgrade.php be exempt from any caching functions — there’s no need to cache that page or its iterations. Also, if WordPress does require PHP v4.3 or greater (which would be altogether reasonable), upgrade.php should check to make sure that it’s present.

Of course, all of this is contingent on my hunch being right that cache file data is not being retrieved, and that this is a consequence of the version of PHP that I’m running.

MAK,
how to set up a server is beyond the scope of this forum. We do not offer support for that kind of questions. You’d be better off to try to get help from some more specialized fora, where they deal mainly with that kind of questions. Sorry.
When your server is up and you have problems with the install of WP 2.0 – feel free to post back.