annual upgrade

Directions: Upgrading WordPress

My directory is ‘BLOG’ not ‘WORDPRESS’. Does it matter? How do I extract to my server? Do I upload it to my root and extract from there?

See if this helps.

https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=17

Where can I get cpanel?

If your host doesn’t provide it, then you don’t get it. Even without it, the video should provide you some insight into upgrading…just do the things I do with file manager, using your FTP client. Hopefully, you have access to phpMyAdmin so you can backup your database.

Well, I backed up my database files. I did both ways suggested together. Only the first video was watched. I deleted all my wp files and replaced them with 2.7 wp files. I then upgraded(upgrade.php), which told me to rename the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. I did that and I was then staring at a blank page.

I watched some of the second video and changed the contents of my config.php file and no difference.

Refer to the details in your wp-config file that you were using before you started the upgrade.

Hopefully you made a back-up of wp-config before starting this.

The only changes I did were the user, username, password and the security keystrokes. If the backup was in the dbase backup, then I did back it up.

I tried to just copy the files unzipped on my computer,do they need to be copied through MyPhpAdmin to work.

Backing up your database is one thing, backing up all your files is another thing (a major, important thing).

wp-config is a file. It isn’t in your database. It lives in your FTP, in your WordPress folder. Go into the backup of your files and find the old wp-config, and use the exact same details from it, to make sure you got everything right such as username, password, and table prefix.

If you simply don’t have it, then anyway, just put the correct username, password, and table prefix in your wp-config and it should work. If these are filled in wrong, I think it should say “cannot connect to database”. If you’re not getting that error message you may have something else wrong, it’s hard to tell from what you said so far.

For the future, when you’re preparing to upgrade, do NOT delete wp-config, and do NOT delete your wp-contents folder. You delete everything else WordPress before upgrading.

I watched some of the second video

You need to watch all of both videos. Everything is important if you want to do it right and get it working.

I did watch both videos and my blog is still blank.

Baby steps unfortunately, I did a snapshot recovery of my blog through my host. I also need to visually see it being done to comprehend it, I notice. Thanks for all your help, if you would help me further, that would be awesome.

I still would like to upgrade my blog…

Email me and I’ll take a look at it for you…no guarantees, but if your host has a decent set-up so that it doesn’t take me all day, then I’ll upgrade it for you. 234figaro432 [at] gmail [dot] com