Unfortunately a simple

ln -s target link

wasn’t an option as I didn’t have shell access.

So in usual fashion I have to use a php script and chmod the directory permissions to 777 in this case



<?php
$target = ‘/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php’;
$link = ‘/public_html/wp-content/advanced-cache.php’;
symlink($target, $link);

echo(readlink($link));

?>

Of course php symlink can do some funny things so maybe its a case of using the exec command.

<?php
exec(’ln -s /public_html/wp-content/advanced-cache.php /public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php’)

?>
Really whichever works for you at the end of the day. This worked for me

For some reason a column “assoc_order” is missing in the “css_assoc” table.

To fix this (probably handies via phpmyadmin go in and alter the table structure and add a new column of type int(11) and Null.

The upgrade went smoothly enough. Database schema was all fine and dandy but for some reason it was not loading the style sheets and this would appear to be the reason

You can get the Art & Science of CSS for free (PDF download) from their site.

The link is http://twitaway.aws.sitepoint.com/ There seems to be some issues with the following and getting a link to it hopefully they’ll iron it out shortly.

Either way free book and worth a free download

I’ve running a lot of installs of CMS Made Simple ( CMSMS ) and any of the images I was adding were appearing fine on my admin section when I was adding them to the page in edit mode.

Of course I’ve a load of sites out there and I couldn’t see the difference between them apart from thinking oh I’ve got this on a different server the apache config / mod rewrite has to be different.
So I’ve just spent the better part of an hour going through all the settings in the cpanel … .htaccess files and config files.

Anyways to cut a long story short.

Make sure your template includes the {metadata} tag

Which of course includes the tag which tells urls like uploads/images/logo.png what path to start from. for example.

Hope that saves people some agonizing.

The solution to resetting it back to one using phpmyadmin (short of entering in an sql statment) when viewing the list of the tables tick the table (that of course you’ve emptied and want to reset or empty) and from the drop down select empty.

A minor thing but it saved me a bit of hastle tonight and will come in handy again as I’ll be resetting tables in this database quite often.

If you find yourself needing to up some of the settings well you may not want to do it for all your sites on the server. You may also not have access to the php.ini settings file. If you find yourself in this boat why try the following and see if it helps.

Into your .htaccess file put:

php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value max_execution_time 60

php_value safe_mode Off

Of course you’ll only want to tweak the settings you need.

You can find more at http://us2.php.net/configuration.changes

edit: I added in php_value safe_mode (12th November 2008)

I’ve got a Mac so I quite like getting down dirty with things and having commands to “find” things easily.

However I realised quite recently I wasn’t too sure offhand how to find a file on a linux system. My VPS that I regularly ssh into doesn’t exactly have a nice file manager for the system files (at least I’ve not found it yet) So I was quite happy to be able to use the following

find / -name "filename"

in my case I was looking for my httpd.conf so I simply put in

find / -name "httpd.conf"

Basically search for httpd.conf from the root folder /
Pretty obvious I know if you regularly use linux

A quick check of the man pages for dig and I found its

dig @namerserver mydomain

Of course it still took about 30 minutes for the name servers to update. Still it was nice to be able to verify that the name servers had updated and that it was just a case now of waiting for the changes to propagate

In the mean time welcome to the site.

James