Personalized Gifts Shopping Blog» wordpress upgrade http://blogwealthwood.com Christmas Gifts, Holiday Gifts, Wedding, Bridesmaid, Groomsmen, Anniversary, Birthday, Valentines Day and more! Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:10:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Upgrading Wordpress Snafu http://blogwealthwood.com/2007/10/17/wordpress-upgrade/ http://blogwealthwood.com/2007/10/17/wordpress-upgrade/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:10:14 +0000 Ken http://www.blogwealthwood.com/2007/10/17/wordpress-upgrade/ After deciding to upgrade Wordpress to the 2.3 version, we downloaded the new files and got to the updating the database step and hit a brick wall with an error message saying you need MySQL version 4.0 or greater.

Our first approach was to get our ISP to upgrade our MySQL version. Well that will take a day or two, (in the meantime the blog is down) so we went about restoring the files that we had backed up. Wow, we actually backed them up!

Researching a little further, we found the notification in the Upgrading WordPress guide:
Before you get started, make sure you meet the minimum requirements. Guess who blew right by that first line in the guide.
To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things:

  • PHP version 4.2 or greater
  • MySQL version 4.0 or greater

A word for the wise. “Check your server versions before upgrading” and save yourself a headache.

Now we are waiting for our server upgrades and we will try it again.

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