mlavie

Shameless bump.

No takers?

Hi Krishna,

Thanks for the response!

mlavie

esmi – Just wanted to update you that from Googling it became clear that WP on Windows/IIS cannot be autoupdated – period. I did the manual update – tedious, but-do-able.

Beste Gberk,

I am experiencing similar problems. I also read the manual upgrade instructions, and got the impression that not even Albert EInstein could do it successfully.

I would be happy to hear more about your experience and if/how you succeeded.

Bij voorbaat dank!

mvg,
mlavie

OK – thanks anyway.

The problem is that I just took a look at the manual upgrade instructions you linked to, and it seems like even Albert EInstein wouldn’t be able to undersatdn them. But then again, I might just be as stupid as my ex-wife claims…

Hi Esmi,

OK – I should have been more specific – has anypne succeeded in doing an automatic upgrade when WordPress was installed in Windows IIS using WPI 4.5.

I have other programs on my server which require IIS, andother web servers can’t be run simulatneously.

Well, I gave in and installed the Windows FTP server. But even if I specify the admin’s credentials for FTP access, the installtion fails (failed copying files).

Has ANYONE managed to perform an automatic upgrade in Windows?

I am beginning to get the feeling that WordPress’s Windows support is an afterthought…

Thanks David for your response.

I am amazed that it is that complicated.

I ended up doing a total re-install by:

1) Manually removing all components installed by WPI 4.5
2) Manually removing the c:\ProgramData\MySql folder (otherwise a re-install of MySql doesn’t work because the behind-the-scenes configuration of MySql assumed a totally new DB, and an uninstall of MySql doesn’t really erase the old one)
3) Reinstalltion of the WPI 4.5 WordPress kit – this time specifying application = <EMPTY>

GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR

mlavie