December 24, 2007 – 16:29
The name servers are pointing to the new Linux machine from now on, and things are running smooth (so far). The WordPress database issue was solved by upgrading to the latest 2.3.1 version, which required a DB upgrade anyway, and fixed the tables that where incorrect. I had manually fix the md5 hash codes for [...]
December 19, 2007 – 20:52
Yup. After the latest hickups and glitches and the fact that hosting on a Linux machine is considerably cheaper at my hosting co than doing the same thing on Windows I’m moving this blog over to a brand new spanking Linux machine in the following days. I’m hoping I’ll manage to set up things smoothly, [...]
Things that suck: having to change your permalinks. They’re called permalinks for a reason, but if for some unknown reason you keep getting CGI errors on the old links you can’t just keep that setting can you? So now I’m using the old and ugly WP default permalink structure again, linking to a post using [...]
September 23, 2007 – 20:46
The way I see it, you have two good and one bad option to host your own website or blog. I’ll start with the bad one so we get that over with, which is hosting your site from a machine running at home over your DSL or cable connection. It’s cool if you want to [...]
An interesting article I came across quite a while ago but didn’t get around to writing a post about is wordpress’ backup facility. Now the easiest way of doing this IMO, is by activating and using the backup plugin which comes with WP by default. Just activate it and you’ll get a Backup link in [...]
So I went ahead and upgraded to the latest and greatest WordPress version, being v2.1.2. Always a bit tricky this kind of thing, but I have to say that I never ran into any real issues when upgrading so kudos for the guys working on WP and making the upgrade truly easy and only taking [...]
Lately I was getting a massive amount of hits on my site from all sorts of unknown http bots. Since I was also getting a huge amount of spam comments I figured these two where linked together, and my blog was being hit by spam bots like a cheap blond in a gang bang. These [...]
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