Error updating WordPress 3.2 (already read manual)

  • Resolved Miske

    (@miske)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    I updated WordPress a few minutes ago via the dashboard (automatic update), but I get an error message: WP 3.2 requires MySQL 5.0 or higher.

    I can’t go to my admin-menu any more; I keep getting this message whatever I try.

    I already erased my plugins but it still doesn’t work.

    Unfortunately, I read the manual AFTER the update so I haven’t got a recent backup (3 of 4 days old) :(.

    I hope it’s not too difficult to undo the update?

    Thanks!
    Greetz from Belgium!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    It’s not going to work unless you upgrade to MySQL 5.0 or higher.

    Download http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.1.4.zip and manually install that. It should roll you back. And since you didn’t get to the DB upgrade part of things, you should be okay 🙂

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    thanks Ipstenu! Are there any recent files that I should save & overwrite so that there will be nothing lost by doing the “old” update?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Generally just overlaying the files from the zip is safe 🙂 It can’t overwrite any of your add-ons.

    If you want to be extra careful (good on you!), backup all your files, but especially:

    /wp-config.php
    /.htaccess
    /wp-content/ (the whole folder)

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    OK, another question before trying this: I have a recent backup of all my files of WP 3.1.4; maybe I can upload them again via FTP?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Yeah, you can do that too 🙂 Just in that case DO NOT over-write the wp-content folder! You run the risk of losing your image uploads if you do that.

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thanx! I updated the root and admin section, not wp-includes and wp-content. But now I’m getting a “not-found” page. I already deleted all tmp’s, cookies etc. and refreshed the screen by Ctrl+F5. HELP!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Getting a not found on … what?

    Everything? Just a couple pages?

    http://www.kimbols.be/ comes up okay for me.

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    (translated from Dutch)
    The page can’t be displayed
    HTTP 500
    Most likely causes:
    • Working on this site.
    • The website contains a programming error.

    Possible actions:
    Refresh this page
    Go back to previous page
    more information

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Which page is this happening on?

    Can you link to it?

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Yeah, the site itself is still working, but I can’t login to my dashboard anymore ;).

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    http://www.kimbols.be/wp-admin/ doesn’t work

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you so much Ipstenu for helping me and for your patience; I hope we can fix this problem :).

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Go in via FTP to wp-content and rename plugins to plugins-old

    Thread Starter Miske

    (@miske)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    OK, but now I’m getting this message: W3 Total Cache Error: some files appear to be missing or out of place. Please re-install plugin or remove /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/advanced-cache.php.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Rename that file to advanced-cache.old for now. Just to get you back IN.

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