WordPress 2.0.7 Security Update
Monday, January 15, 2007 20:18 | 317 viewsPosted in category Site Update
Wow. It's starting to remind me of Microsoft.
Update, after update, after update….
Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We’re able to work around it fairly easily, so we’ve decided to release 2.0.7 to fix the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6. It is recommended that everyone running [... ]
But when it comes to security updates. I'll do it.
It's actually quite easy now. I just make a copy of my current blog folder, then overwrite everything in the old folder.
There's only one file that I have hacked is the execute-pings.php file so that when trackbacking the first part of my post shows instead of just one line.
Another upgrade
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January 15th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Bloody Hell!
Well, I ain’t doing that shit tonight. I’ve spent damn near all day rebuilding my bloody piece of shit server. Oh, shit, I hope it didn’t hear that…
January 15th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
LOL.
It takes me longer to copy the blog folder, than it does to overwrite the old files.
I had it up and running in about 3 minutes.
January 15th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Well, hell, I went ahead and copied the blog folder, which takes me the longest too, so I guess I’ll go ahead and do it. At least that gave me something to do while I was installing an application that the main component I wanted freakin FAILED.
Guess I might as well upgrade while I’m downloading MS patches. Heck, it will kill, what 3 minutes? LOL
January 15th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Well, it took me 10 minutes. Forgot to account for actually having to upload to my hosting account.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Wanna faster way? Unzip the update file. Delete wp-content from it. Copy wp-admin, wp-includes, and the files int he root directory, overwriting as you go. Go to ../wp-admin/upgrade.php and click. Done.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
You don’t have to remove wp-content. It’s only going to overwrite WP files, not your own theme files.
I just dropped the unzipped file into my blog directory and said ‘Yes To All’ when it asked me to overwrite. My own themes and plug-ins in wp-content are untouched.
I forgot about uploading time DL, Ooops. Heh heh. I didn’t have to upload anything.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
LOL, I hope I can remember that next time. Which at the current rate of upgrading that will be next week?
January 15th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
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January 16th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
I just want to be sure that there’s no strangeness, so I don’t bother uploading that folder. Its a waste of work and bandwidth. But, hey, that’s me. Just remember to follow the instructions and back up your work first, which reminds me…