Upgrading to Wordpress 1.5 beta 1 by Ben Ramsey

I’ve upgraded my blog to Wordpress 1.5 beta 1 (the latest nightly snapshot). Thus, things look a bit different around here, in case you haven’t noticed.

I’ll be cleaning things up and returning the site to a semblance of normalcy in the upcoming days.

For now, I need to figure out why my rewrite rules work perfectly on my staging site and not at all here, which is why the URL contains that awkward index.php directory.

UPDATE: I’m not sure what the difference was, but I copied over the .htaccess file from the staging site again, and this time it works. I apparently didn’t copy something correctly the first time. So, all old links are now available from their proper locations.

8 Comments

neofreko January 9, 2005 at 05:40

I just noticed, after an upload to my site and there is error of "__()" function not exist, that this WP now using PHP5 .. ouch .. too bad that I'm hosted on PHP 4.3.10 .. So I guess I have to deal with that spammer on my own way .. welcome cruel world ..

Ben Ramsey January 9, 2005 at 13:46

My host also uses 4.3.10 and I haven't seen any error messages of that sort.

What is the full error message? Just because you get a function does not exist error for "__()" doesn't me that WP is using PHP 5. Are you using WP 1.5 from CVS or a nightly snapshot?

Ben Ramsey January 9, 2005 at 13:50

On second thought, you may want to check with your host and see if they are running Zend Optimizer. If so, there was an incompatibilty running ZO with PHP 4.3.10. Zend has fixed this problem, and in order for hosts to fix it, they must install the newest version of the optimizer.

Read more about it here:
http://zend.com/store/produ...

Marcus Whitney January 10, 2005 at 21:35

How can one get a copy of 1.5 beta? I've signed up to the notification list, but no idea how to access the package at the moment. Thanks.

Ben Ramsey January 10, 2005 at 21:38

Go to http://wordpress.org and click on the Download link. Scroll down the page until you see the "Bleeding Edge" heading. You'll see instructions for downloading from CVS. There's also a link to "nightly builds" available in zipped and gzipped versions

Noah January 14, 2005 at 21:26

I am experiencing the same malfunction, Ã¢â‚¬Å“__()Ã¢â‚¬? when trying to drop Wordpress 1.5 in and use prior WP 1.2 database. It seems that to upgrade one must run the WP install script, which in my case necessitated the creation of a new database and then importing the 1.2 entries after finalizing the install.

NKT

Noah January 14, 2005 at 21:27

I meant to say, "I was experiencing" that malfunction. :0

Ben Ramsey January 14, 2005 at 22:34

You don't have to run the install script. The proper procedure is to run the upgrade script, which converts your 1.2 database to 1.5. You can't just drop in the 1.5 codebase and use it with a 1.2 database; you have to upgrade it.

The upgrade script is located in /wp-admin/upgrade.php