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My Centos 5.11 has no update packages available for OpenSSL or libcurl, so it will be necessary for me to create my own work-arounds.

Does anyone know of scripts that will perform rdiff on my wordpress against the golden wordpress files?

Previous versions ran on my CentOS distribution, but the current one doesn’t.

What Niall states is correct: the version requirement is clearly stated and the plug-in does not activate, and also alerts the administrator in the WP dashboard.

What Butch states is correct: not supporting earlier PHP versions is a cop-out.

Larger truth: the installed base matters.

Thanks David and Clayton.

I spent a few hours trying to identify which files had been hacked, but finally followed the directions to rebuild the site.

@clayton.
1. Thanks for advising me of the version. The last manual update appears to have been on 11 Oct 2015. There is a new file ../wp-admin/update-core.php which was dated 2 Feb 2016. Presumably this was done via auto-update, since I didn’t manually update.

2. The site certainly could have been hacked. I found a couple of directories with index.php files that are not human readable. Still investigating to see if I can find the problem.

3. I followed directions to change password for the admin user, but that is not helping me yet. Still get the “can’t open file” message when I try to access files within wp-admin.

Can you tell me what tools you used to identify infection, in case that helps me identify the root cause.

@david
Thanks. I wasn’t clear.

I am not trying to edit any files within wp-admin. In fact, I have shell access and get to them all if I choose.

My problem is accessing the admin system after I log in. I get the dashboard overlay on my public facing pages, but if I follow any link, I get the “can’t open file” message.

@tara. yes. I can download it too, but not using SSL.

Interesting — a single blog used with multiple hosts.

Not what I’m after, though. I want multiple weblogs, but each using the same wordpress php code. Mostly this is for ease of maintenance, so I only install once, though I configure each.

Perhaps my experience with non-php (mod-perl, speedy, JRun, Witango) app servers is skewing my perspective on this. But I would think that having a single php file instance would permit mod_php to cache and compile certain components, if not now at least in future versions.