Update to 3.0 went pretty smoothly. I’m having some problem with images (added how to fix below)
- Ran my custom backup script:
$ cd ~/Desktop/wp-backup $ ./backup
- Downloaded wordpress 3.0:
$ cd ~/Desktop/src/downloads/pkgs $ curl -O http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz $ mv latest.tar.gz wordpress-3.0.tgz
- Make sure you know the WP administrator user password as WP 3.0 uses a “Super Admin” interface.
- No real special requirements for my site for wpmu upgrade most a lot of warnings about plugins and themes not necessarily being compatible.
- Follow the directions or these even better directions
- Disable plugins from site admin web page
- Remove (save somewhere else) wp-admin, wp-includes
- Extract the wordpress-3.0.files
- Fix permisions (this is Apple’s Snow Leopard Server)
$ cd /Library/Webserver/Documents $ mv wp-admin wp-includes ~/tmp $ tar xzvf ~/Desktop/src/downloads/pgks/wordpress-3.0.tgz $ chown -R _www:_www .
- remove blogs.php
$ cd /Library/Webserver/Documents $ rm wp-content/blogs.hp
- Modify .htaccess to add the rule for wp-files (replacings blogsphp):
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
- Upgrade the site (site.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php). Login as the administrator user, if you don’t see “Super Admin” you aren’t the right user.
- My site admin had some extra steps to perform like getting rid of blogs.php and adding some code
for the cookies. - Update the plugins
Pete Ware 