{"id":93,"date":"2006-06-09T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2006\/06\/09\/93\/"},"modified":"2006-06-10T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T21:24:54","slug":"93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2006\/06\/09\/93\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading the community blog project website"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>archive the filesystem to the backup directory$ tar -C ~ -zcf  community_blogs-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz community_blogs<\/li>\n<li>archive the database$ backupdb database username password hostname community_blogs_db<\/li>\n<li>backup the filesystem$ rm -rf ~\/community_blogs.bak &amp;&amp; mv ~\/community_blogs ~\/community_blogs.bak<\/li>\n<li>Download the latest nightly build of wpmu from http:\/\/mu.wordpress.org\/download\/ and extract it$ wget http:\/\/blogs.linux.ie\/download\/wpmu\/wpmu-unstable.tar.gz -O ~\/backup\/community_blogs_packages\/wpmu-unstable.tar.gz$ cd ~ &amp;&amp; tar zxf ~\/backup\/community_blogs_packages\/wpmu-unstable.tar.gz &amp;&amp; mv wpmu-* community_blogs<\/li>\n<li>Copy configuration files and plugins from old install<br \/>\n$ cp ~\/community_blogs.bak\/.htaccess ~\/community_blogs<br \/>\n$ cp ~\/community_blogs.bak\/wp-inst\/.htaccess ~\/community_blogs\/wp-inst\/<br \/>\n$ cp ~\/community_blogs.bak\/wp-inst\/wpmu-settings.php ~\/community_blogs\/wp-inst\/<br \/>\n$ cp ~\/community_blogs.bak\/wp-inst\/wp-config.php ~\/community_blogs\/wp-inst\/<br \/>\n$ cp -r ~\/community_blogs.bak\/wp-inst\/wp-content\/plugins\/* ~\/community_blogs\/wp-inst\/wp-content\/plugins\/<br \/>\n$ cp -r ~\/community_blogs.bak\/wp-inst\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/* ~\/community_blogs\/wp-inst\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/<\/p>\n<p>Note: Some plugins (like EventCalendar) require that you patch part of the wordpress install.\u00c2\u00a0 Be sure to apply these patches after upgrading your wordpress install.<\/li>\n<li>Run upgrade script (http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/wp-inst\/wp-admin\/upgrade.php ) in browser<\/li>\n<li>Run the upgrade command in the Site Admin part of the admin panel (http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-admin\/wpmu-upgrade-site.php) in browser.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>archive the filesystem to the backup directory$ tar -C ~ -zcf community_blogs-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz community_blogs archive the database$ backupdb database username password hostname community_blogs_db backup the filesystem$ rm -rf ~\/community_blogs.bak &amp;&amp; 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