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Misha’s Tech Playground
graphics, fun and code play
I'm crazy - but who cares? My ideas are constantly dwelling and this is the place for them to pour out and form into something good. Only active participation will ultimately make this place come to life.
Site Problems
Having spent the last 2 and a half hours to restore the WordPress installation and static content of this site, I am just too fed up right now to also recreate all the modifications I made to the theme I used.
Reason for this was my naive believe that “backup” actually has the meaning it implies. I was trying to ease my life by using WPAU (WordPress Automatic Update) Plugin to do just that. Update WordPress automatically so I don’t have to bother with all the backing up and extracting files and stuff.
The Problems I encountered were manifold.
- The Plugin changed all file and folder permissons to 0777, which caused the server to close everything up because it doesn’t allow executable rights for others on folders or in other words, allows only 0750 as the permissons flag on folders.
- The backup task of WPAU backed up no additional themes, plugins or config files
- After successfully updating the files manually there was a nag “You apparently didn’t remove files from your previous update”, which upon clicking wiped my whole wordpress installation off my server. Luckily this didn’t affect the databse so at least I didn’t have to restore this as well.
So now I am not saying that WPAU is too buggy for anyone to be used. It is just my personal experience that it didn’t work at all and even worse, destroyed all my static data.
Just as a warning: Don’t trust any program or script that tells you it will take care of your updates. Be sure to do this yourself too!
So for the time being this site is back to very basic funcionality. It doesn’t really look nice, but I am working on that as soon as I get some time.
Welcome
So that’s it. This is my blog.
I decided I’d better go with WordPress for the time being to have at least something working where I can quickly post news (hopefully) some people will be interested in. I certainly hope this won’t turn into another blog that spills out stuff people should better keep to their own. (more…)
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