Back up!
Wow. That was not fun– I had to rediscover how to do several sysadmin type things, and the whole while I was afraid I’d cause some irrevocable error. There still seems to be a problem with accessing external websites, which was present right from the pristine file-system, so I’m stumped on that one. On the other hand, I got a new plan with increased memory, and since I’m a long time customer (>2 years?) my host generously gifted me with an additional 64Mb, so I’m good on that front. Maybe I have enough to mess around with Ruby on Rails. I also got an additional IP address!
All’s not done yet: for the blog I still have to reinstall plugins, themes, and external files, and probably muck about with .htaccess files to make permalinks work properly. For everywhere else on the site, I can just copy the directory structure directly.
Possibly relevant posts:
- In Media Res (3/11/2005)
- Changes… going through changes (6/28/2007)
- Upgrading caveats (3/6/2005)