rsync and the WSOD — a solution!

  • background:
    every time i updated my remote websites, i got the wsod (white screen of death). sometimes erasing and reinstalling plugins and themes solved the wsod.

    apparently most of the WSOD cases was due to the way rsync upload files from windows to unix computers:

    i had rsync running on windows xp, a cygwin port of rsync, and synchronizing it with a linux server.

    the uploaded files where NOT IDENTICAL: they had extra spaces, missing characters, and lines!

    since there’s no “binary/ascii” command line flag or option, the solution was to use “-z” (enable compression).

    this forces comparison and transmission to be binary identical.
    problem solved (for now).

    your comments are welcome

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