Connecting PHP 4 to MySQL 5

20
Aug

I recently upgraded one of our MySQL servers from 4.1.22 to 5.1.26. In the process of upgrading, I dumped all the databases, uninstalled MySQL then installed a clean copy of 5.1.26. Then I manually created all the users and schemas by hand, then restored our backups to the new install. Everything went smoothly and all the servers that had PHP 5.x installed could connect with no problems (because they used the latest version of the MySQL client API.)
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Posted by Toby Simmons in Web Development in 2008 at 3:29:01 pm
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Running a WordPress blog in site root using IIS

21
Apr

Up until recently, I had never been able to setup a WordPress blog as the root of a web site under IIS. But I have discovered the secret and have recently changed my own site so that my content no longer shows up under a “/wordpress” directory but instead in the root.
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Posted by Toby Simmons in WordPress in 2008 at 10:59:13 am
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