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  • hi.

    i have a domain, ftp access to my site, i got some space from a friend earlier, and i had wordpress on it for a while. then i removed it, and now i want to put it back again.
    my database name etc i have (for the old site), but i cant contact the guy who owns the server – to clean or to create new databases.i dont know the admin address for that.
    can i do this without his help, or not?

    the new wordpress what i uploaded looks all broken, because of this old database. is it possible to use the old one still?

    thanks, krisztian

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  • You might be able to incrementally upgrade your blog, which should make all the necessary database changes.

    But…

    You really need to get control of your database and your web-space in general. If you can’t contact the guy who is hosting your site you are playing with fire. Everything could just vanish one day. Plus, it is unclear how much ability you have to make backups of the database, which is the most critical part, frankly. That is where all of your content is. You shouldn’t be trying to alter anything if you can pull down a backup of that.

    Thread Starter randomroutine

    (@randomroutine)

    thanks,

    about the database access… i can take care of it only later…

    what do you mean by incrementally upgrading?

    what do you mean by incrementally upgrading?

    Start with the version you already have installed and download the next release from the archive. Upgrade, make sure things work, then download the next release. Upgrade, make sure things work, then download the next release. And so on. You should eventually work your way to the current release.

    But, again, don’t start messing with things unless you can get the database backed up. You are at risk of losing your content. Its hard to say how much of a chance you’d be taking but you would certainly be taking a chance.

    Thread Starter randomroutine

    (@randomroutine)

    ok. thanks 🙂

    The sequence others have used is 2.0.5 to 2.1, 2.1 to 2.3, 2.3 to 2.5, 2.5 to 2.8.5, 2.8.5 to 2.9.

    Older versions available at http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

    Thread Starter randomroutine

    (@randomroutine)

    ok. there´s one thing bothering this process, that in ftp
    i cannot delete directories anymore.

    a week ago i tried a cms called core. during installation it asked me to turn off register_globals.

    i did that in a .htaccess file.
    then, when installed the cms i decided not to use it for now, and tried to remove the folder, it didnt work. then i overwrote the htaccess with register globals on.

    now all the folders i create are undeletable, i guess its related with this stupidity above.

    any ideas how to fix this? (without actual access to the database admin – i have only ftp)

    thanks

    With ws-ftp I always had to make a folder empty before I could delete the folder itself. Not so with WIN-SCP.
    That said: making wp-admin and wp-include empty will do; you camleave the empty folder ad put the new stuff in there.
    Making it empty serves the goal that sometimes older files will not be overwritten through ftp, so deleting the older files is the most secure.

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