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iridiax:

Right, thanks for that. I have seen these references.

As you can see, I need help to install 2.8 then restore my blog.

As to permissions, I can change them, but I don’t understand the section “Permission scheme for WordPress”. I don’t know how to find the different users and I’ve made changes I can’t remember. I want to start from scratch to clean things up.

Can you comment on how to reinstall? Can you answer my questions?

Thanks.

Uhhh, guys, this is an incredibly busy forum. My original post is a bit wordy. I’d like to keep things simple.

• I do not trust my current installation because I’ve used chmod so much I fear the values are insecure.
• I cannot upgrade to 2.8 automatically.
• I want to change the url from …/blog to the root but leave WP where it is, in …/blog.

I think I can address all this by deleting the current directories (but not the MySQL database!), installing 2.8 afresh and then restoring the customisations from backup.

Is there documentation on doing this? I’ve looked but I can’t find any.

How should I handle the .htaccess file?

I’ve customised a few css files, the header and sidebar and some other things. In restoring from backup after installing 2.8, I think I should overwrite /wp-content/*.* and nothing else. Is that correct?

I’d value any confirmation you can give and any further advice.

Thanks!

Richard.