amymorrisonMy WordPress blog is hosted and my site manager provides application management tools that I typically use whenever WP issues an update (it takes them a while to get the newest versions added to Site Manager but it's usually painless so I wait).
2.3.2 is finally available as an update but I immediately notice that it also requires me to update from PHP 5.2.1 to PHP 5.2.5
Okay, no big deal. But. I can't upgrade from PHP 5.2.1 and am getting the following error:
The following files/folders already exist:
* /usr/local/php
* /usr/local/zend
* /etc/php.ini
Please remove these files/folders and try the installation again.
Right. So now I'm peeing my pants over the prospect of deleting anything (not because I don't know how but because I don't know what dire consequences await me) if I do this.
So here's my question. Can I rename those files (thereby keeping them in the directory temporarily) and will renaming them fool the system into creating whatever replacement folders it needs to create? Or are these files really deletable without catastrophic results?
I'm good at trial and error, but not when it involves potential data loss. Thanks for any help anybody can offer.
