One-Click Upgrades: Wordpress 2.1.1, WP-Cache 2.1.0, MediaWiki 1.9.3
Wordpress 2.1.1 is a “low-to-medium” priority update with a few bugfixes. WP-Cache has been needing an update for a while, sorry for the delay! WP-Cache is installed but not enabled by default — you’ll have to log in to your wp-admin page and go under the “Plugins” page to activate it.
Wordpress 2.1.1 changelog
WP-Cache 2.1.0 changelog
MediaWiki 1.9.3 fixes a possibly AJAX security exploit in IE7.
Upgrading your One-Click Installs can be done by logging in to panel.dreamhost.com, clicking on the “Goodies” tab and then on the “One-Click Installs” page. On that page, upgrade links should appear next to each of your upgradable applications.
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February 28th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Very good.I hope it will run well.
February 28th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
There’s no danger of losing all of the stuff in my wiki or wordpress site as a consequence of upgrading…right?
I just don’t want to click “upgrade” and then find that I should have backed up a bunch of stuff–or that that’s when DH loses the ability to serve my site and everything gets corrupted at once.
So this is safe, right, guys?
February 28th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I’ve done it before with no problems, but I did decide to just install everything manually, so I no longer use One-Click installs.
February 28th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
@Matt
Backup regardless of an update or not….
February 28th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I had click on Upgrade for Wordpress and the robot told me that in 5-10 minutes will be upgraded. After 20 minutes, Wordpress is not upgraded. What should I do?
February 28th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Finally, my blog was upgraded. Thanks
February 28th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Ah, patience, patience! Did your life come to a stop because WordPress wasn’t upgraded as quickly as you wanted?
Peace,
Gene
February 28th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Lucrix - open a support case using the option in your Dreamhost Panel.
Backups / Restores: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Automated_domain_snapshots
Dreamhost maintains a backup from your domain 1 and 2 hours old, 1 and 2 days old, 1 and 2 weeks old.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Is there a reason why both the “upgrade” and “remove” links go directly to my website? They don’t upgrade they just link to my domain.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Jim - That’s strange my WP upgrade didn’t go to your site… (just kidding) My upgrade link upgraded my site.
To DH - Thanks for the latest round of updates to dreamhoststatus.com - the new headers and status fields could be very useful.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Why are these called upgrades? They’re brand new installs that wipe all your settings and configurations. I, for one, have added plenty of extensions and custom CSS to my mediawiki install. With the click of a button, I can “upgrade” it all back to vanilla?!? Yet another “feature” by the DH marketing team.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
@Confused - I haven’t tried the mediawiki upgrade yet, but the WP upgrade to 2.1.1 worked flawlessly and didn’t affect any of my customizations which are are all in the wp-content subdirectory and not affected by the upgrade. The mediawiki upgrade scared me, and I see that I was right in being careful.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Is there any possibility that this upgrade could have broken existing MediaWiki installs? Our site is running MediaWiki (was 1.8.x) via a manual install and we went down with a strange internal error at about the time this entry was posted. I manually upgraded MediaWiki to the latest 1.9.3 and every thing’s fine now.
The curious thing is that our wiki install is in SVN and none of our files indicated they’d been changed. It just stopped working and wouldn’t work on the Dreamhost server without an upgrade. The same files and database dump that wouldn’t run on DH ran fine on a local development machine.
Any ideas?
February 28th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
While WP 2.1.1 works fine, I’d be cautious about the WP-Cache plug-in. It can actually work against performance, by putting too much data in the Cache directory it recreates. In my case, I ran into problems where it began to use too many processors for DH’s servers. The latest WP is more efficient than previous versions, and I wouldn’t be too concerned about a caching add-on.
In fact, I recommend against it!
Peace,
Gene
March 1st, 2007 at 1:10 am
My email has been down for 6 hours (after it went down for at least another +1 hr today among other outages) and my simple website after going down again today is running like it is connected off a 2400 baud modem, if at all. I want everyone to know that this is BULL and has been happening a lot lately (before and after the outage) and if this ALL isn’t resolved soon I am moving to a new host and informing 100 thousand plus people about my experience with this company. And NO i am not running the stupid 8 dollar plan, nor does my site deal with much traffic yet (it is unannounced). And YES I’ve been reporting all the problems to support at almost the rate of spam…unfortunately it’s legit and my constant outtages have been verified and warranted such. No matter what the price is such a “service” is UNUSABLE.
March 1st, 2007 at 2:32 am
you really have been a peice of shit this week dreamhost stop fucking up
March 1st, 2007 at 4:07 am
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'link_count' in 'where clause']
SELECT * FROM wp_categories WHERE cat_ID > 0 AND link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_name ASC
I always get this error on day 0 upgrades - ah well, time to rename the .old domain (again)
March 1st, 2007 at 4:07 am
All your update are belong to us.
March 1st, 2007 at 5:34 am
Joe Maller, I think that Mediawiki problem was caused by an upgrade to php5. I also fixed it by upgrading Mediawiki for glom.org. I’m sure they had their reasons, and I remember seeing various warnings about an imminent php5 upgrade somewhere or other.
March 1st, 2007 at 7:12 am
God Dammit! It has overwritten some modified theme I had on a server…
I guess I have to create it under a new name, now…
March 1st, 2007 at 7:45 am
squirt server seems to be down, for the 19th time this past few days, NOT including the 24 hours downtime.
you are really my dream-host guys
March 1st, 2007 at 8:06 am
Nesbitt/droopy, one or the other or both seem to be really flaky/not loading for my site right now. If anyone is here, can you click on my link and just see if it loads at all??
March 1st, 2007 at 8:58 am
Anyone else getting 503 errors up the Wa-zoo here?
Check out my site, http://macenstein.com
It seems to give a 503 unavailable, but if you try a 2nd time it works.
same with many of the links in the main nav bar.
And this is also happening in my wordpress admin panel.
If I try to moderate a comment, and hit the apply button, i will get a 503 error.
if I hit BACK and then do it again, it works.
and just hitting wordpress tabs like plug-ins and such will do the same.
anyone else getting this?
March 1st, 2007 at 9:15 am
Yes, I also saw the 503 error the first time I loaded your site, when I reloaded it came up. Kind of scary though, you don’t know how many users are hitting the 503 and just bailing. My site is still acting stupid… sigh
March 1st, 2007 at 9:17 am
It’s really frustrating to have my mail down for nearly four hours today, and no posting explaining why/what steps are being taken to solve this problem. Same with the POP outage yesterday.
I moved to Dreamhost very recently in an effort to avoid these problems - this is my business, and it’s a real problem that things are down like this. Could someone please explain what is going on??
March 1st, 2007 at 9:20 am
AJ - agreed! DH seems to be full of apologies and yet short on solutions.
March 1st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Hmmm, clicked the link to upgrade WordPress and got the 5-10 minute success message. But it won’t let me load any other control panel page — it keeps telling me I have an error I have to fix but there’s no error noted. Shows div class=”error”> under Upgrade or remove previously installed software. Bad HTML in the new panel layout? Can’t ask for support because it won’t let me load the support tab.
March 1st, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Could someone from DH PLEASE tell us why mail is running at an absolute snail’s pace, if at all? Webmail is running so slowly that it’s almost completely unusable.
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:07 am
@ Dr. Macenstein
“It seems to give a 503 unavailable, but if you try a 2nd time it works.”
Yeah, I”ve had this on my domain too, specifically on wordpress blogs. It’s caused by the WP-CACHE plugin before version about 2.0.19, Use the latest WP-CACHE 2.1 plugin, and all should be ok!
Cheers,
D
http://www.defza.com
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
WordPress 2.1.1 is dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2 INMEDIATELY
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code [...]
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/
March 4th, 2007 at 4:24 am
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I do not use One Click things, I like to have everything under full control.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:01 am
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November 14th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Very good.I hope it will run well
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