PHP5 Downgrade Complete/Upgrade Scheduled for 02/19

Weird again on the WordPress version requirement. I have been running PHP 5.2 on DH for a while now and have done two WP updates since I had that PHP version installed. I guess that’s more of a YMMV thing though.

Your downgrade wasn’t as complete as you thought - my site’s main blog is still down with a “500 Internal Server Error,” although other installs at the same domain seem to be working just fine.

Yeah. One of my scripts isn’t running. I’m on Skinner!

And wouldn’t you know it, 5.2.1 has just been released. Some days, you just can’t win no matter what.

OK this is a mess, Word Press 2.1 is a major change to the codebase, as a result many existing themes and plugins break when used with 2.1. I guess I’ll have to start running my own version of PHP so I can avoid upgrading 100+ blogs in 9 days. Well that and I’m actually advising against upgrading to 2.1 at the moment, they haven’t even updated the documentation for changed functions so in some cases it’s impossible to fix a theme that breaks!

Maybe you should push the upgrade off to about a month and E-mail all your customers to warn them. This will give people enough time to actually get prepared. I know that I’m going to be very hard pressed to get every blog upgraded by the 19th, there’s just too many of them. I also don’t think switching them back to PHP4 is the answer, that could break things too.

Javier Aroche: They’re saying any version of Word Press prior to 2.1 will (at least potentially) have problems. To simplify, since 2.1 is the current release version, ANY version besides 2.1 needs to be upgraded or it’ll start having problems after 2/19.

The same goes for MediaWiki and ZenCart actually, DH is saying anything besides the current versions will have problems after 2/19. That’s why I suggested a 30 day warning to let people get prepared. I would NOT want to be working DH’s support come 2/20, I suspect a lot of people either won’t get the message about upgrading (I haven’t received an E-mail about it, has anyone?) or won’t manage to get everything upgraded in time.

confused guy: You’re probably running into issues with the upgraded codebase of Word Press 2.1. They made some fairly significant changes to things and 2.1 will break many themes and plugins. They also haven’t updated their documentation to reflect the new codebase so it’s not possible to always know HOW to fix a broken theme/plugin yet. Before this PHP5 upgrade thing came up I was advising my users to not upgrade to 2.1 yet, but to wait until at least 2.1.1 or so.

So basically, upgrade to 2.1 and experience problems or don’t upgrade and experience problems from the PHP 5.2 upgrade. It’s safe to say we have the electronic equivalent of being between a rock and a hard place here.

You didn’t say what problems you were having specifically, if you do I might be able to point you in the right direction, I’ve already dealt with a few and been able to resolve them. There’s others I haven’t been able to fix yet due to lack of documentation. (Basically I know the problems is changes to a function or a new function has replaced an old one but the new version isn’t documented so I can’t find out HOW to call it properly. This is a failure on the WP people’s side to document the upgrade. Yes I know it’s free, I’m not really complaining, it’s just very frustrating with Dreamhost basically forcing us to upgrade now.)

Another fix is to change your site to use PHP version 4 in the Dreamhost Panel,

If I do this, is there any risk of breaking my site? Or should it not actually affect anything? I tried out WP 2.1, and did not like the changes at all. Since 2.0 is still being supported by WP, I HIGHLY prefer staying with that. I just want to be sure that switching to running my site on PHP 4 isn’t going to damage things.

What worries me, is that I think I have at least one plugin that requires PHP 5.1 .. so if I go back to 4.. I’m screwed.

It would be nice to have the option to choose from PHP 4.4.2, 5.1.2, and 5.2; the way we already can between 4 & 5.

Am I the only one anxiously awaiting this upgrade? There are a few features in php 5.2 that I’d like to take advantage of, and I really could care less about my one wordpress site. I’m about to say adious to WP and rewrite the backend anyway.

Sigh.. tomorrow

Sorry for previous truncated comment - let’s try again:

“So is this happening, or what?”

No announcement, but it would appear it didn’t …

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