{"id":601,"date":"2007-09-25T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/?p=601"},"modified":"2008-03-06T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T16:08:49","slug":"variations-on-updating-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2007\/09\/25\/variations-on-updating-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations on Updating WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folks have updated WordPress<\/a> again and I have been evaluating different methods of upgrading. The standard method works but I have been wanting to streamline the process for remote hosts. <\/p>\n

For my locally hosted blog I used the Updating WordPress with Subversion<\/a> method. This is pretty slick! I had previously checked out a copy of WordPress using Subversion and integrated the wp-content and a couple other files into the working copy. All I had to do this morning was to crank up TortoiseSVN on the checked out directory, change its tag to 2.3, and let Subversion do the rest. When I logged in as Admin, it updated the database. I did get some database errors about duplicate entries into wp_terms and wp_term_taxonomy but I do not think these errors are critical since this is the blog I use to test changes with. Its pretty funky!<\/p>\n

Yesterday I got carried away again and did a little research on using Subversion on remote hosts. I found that some host providers provide it but most do not it. My host provider, bluehost.com, does not provide Subversion support directly but I found a post<\/a> on a forum that described a method I could use to install it.  I kind of followed their instructions. It is working as a client and here are my instructions.<\/p>\n

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  1. Log in using SSH. I used PuTTy. <\/li>\n
  2. Create a bin directory. <\/li>\n
  3. Edit the .bashrc file to add the path statement to the bin directory. <\/li>\n
  4. Create a source directory and then change to this directory. <\/li>\n
  5. Use wget to download the tar version of both the Subversion package and the dependencies package. <\/li>\n
  6. Untar both packages. <\/li>\n
  7. Run configure, make, and then make install. You should have several executables in the bin directory.  <\/li>\n
  8. Make sure that subversion works by typing in “svn –version”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here is the command line version: <\/p>\n

    \r\nmkdir ~\/bin\r\n# Use your favorite editor to edit the .bashrc file and add the path statement to the bin directory\r\nmkdir ~\/src\r\n# get the subversion and dependencies tarballs\r\ncd ~\/src\r\nwget http:\/\/subversion.tigris.org\/downloads\/subversion-1.4.5.tar.gz\r\nwget http:\/\/subversion.tigris.org\/downloads\/subversion-deps-1.4.5.tar.gz\r\ntar -xzf subversion-1.4.5.tar.gz \r\ntar -xzf subversion-deps-1.4.5.tar.gz \r\n\r\n# Build it\r\ncd subversion-1.4.3\r\n.\/configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db --with-zlib --with-ssl\r\nmake\r\nmake install\r\n\r\n# check it works!  \r\nsvn --version<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
    I am now able to check out a copy of WordPress and update it on my bluehost.com website. I am not sure this is much better than the WPAU<\/a> plugin I used recently. I will probably continue to play with both methods. I am still working at setting up a repository on bluehost. I do not mind using the Subversion client to update the WordPress files but I would like my bluehost account to be a server for the wp-content files since I would like version control on my theme files. It would be nice if the folks at bluehost decided to directly support Subversion, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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