Comments on: What I Learned Upgrading to WordPress 2.9

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:33:48 +0000

Thanks a bunch for replying so quickly.
Re: wp-configThat’s what I’ve thought. But I’ve checked it over and over and everything is good. So frustrating. I’ve lined up my old (MySQL 4) and new (5) wp-config.php files side by side to compare just to make sure that I didn’t leave traces of old in the new. Everything is clean and should be fine. And I definitely changed the hostname, even though WP says, “99% chance you won’t need to change this value.”

As a test, I’ve gone into my root folder and re-uploaded my original wp-config.php file and, not surprisingly, my old site is back. I’ve then gone back to the new config file (renaming the old one, then, renaming the new one to the proper “wp-config.php”) and still no dice.

It’s weird as the file s are identical save for all the DB info changes.

Aargh.

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:03:13 +0000

Is your wp-config.php pointing to your new database? It sounds like there might be a problem there.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:13:24 +0000

Anyone out there? This article has been hugely helpful and I really appreciate Don’s willingness to share. I’ve followed all the steps carefully and finally got a “Success” from the PHPMyAdmin. (I did follow Marly’s advice, as well, and updated the new host name in the header in addition to deleting the old db’s info.)

However, everytime I’ve tried these steps, I do the final wp-config file update, refresh my site in the browser, and I’m greeted with a brand-spanking new WP Install screen (…url.com/wp-admin/install.php). Just like it was the first time I was installing WP.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there an easy answer that I obviously am missing?
Thanks in advance.

By: FincaBlog

FincaBlog — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:27:58 +0000

Many thanks for this post. Deleting the old database info in the mySQL backup file was very useful to know.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:56:27 +0000

Thank you so much for your article. I was finally able to update WP to the latest version after giving up for over 2 years.

By: Emory Flannery

Emory Flannery — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:17:39 +0000

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By: Juriste

Juriste — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:21:08 +0000

Thx mate, It’s almost 3 month that one of my wordpress website is down and I didn’t have the time to fix it…
I had the same issue you gave me the solution!

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By: Vassan

Vassan — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:36:23 +0000

Read Don’s note on how to upgrade several weeks ago & I didn’t or couldn’t upgrade as my database file was larger than what was permitted. After I renewed my 1& 1 registration last month, called 1&1 for help. One of their techs’ , a gem of a person uploaded the large database file to the newly created database running on mysql 5.0, on my behalf! I was pleasantly surprised. I was considering leaving 1&1. Not now.