Title: Cannot get update to work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Cannot get update to work

 *  [musthave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musthave/)
 * (@musthave)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/)
 * Hi all,
 * Just moved into the word of WordPress this morning as my host offers it as part
   of the package so I installed it and it was version 1.2.2 so after reading some
   more decided to upgrade to 1.5 – or so i thought!
 * I went to admin and ran upgrade.php and it confirmed step one as being the only
   step and that it was succesful. However whenever I log into WordPress is states
   wordpress 1.2.2 at the bottom still, what am I missing?
 * Any help greatly appreciated.
 * Mike

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 *  [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/)
 * (@ifelse)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/#post-195011)
 * Did you upload version 1.5 to your server? upgrade.php doesn’t download the latest
   version but refreshes the backend to the version uploaded.
 *  Thread Starter [musthave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musthave/)
 * (@musthave)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/#post-195072)
 * I had but to the wrong directory DOH.
 * Have moved things now and it has updated but I get the following at the top of
   the page above the dashboard etc…
 * $dbh=mysql_connect (“localhost”, “mhmp_wrdp1”, “”) or die (‘I cannot connect 
   to the database because: ‘ . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db (“mhmp_wrdp1”);
   
   Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/mhmp/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php:23) in /home/mhmp/public_html/
   wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php on line 6
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/mhmp/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php:23) in /home/mhmp/public_html/
   wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php on line 7
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/mhmp/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php:23) in /home/mhmp/public_html/
   wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php on line 8
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/mhmp/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php:23) in /home/mhmp/public_html/
   wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php on line 9
 * I do not know php and have no idea what this means
 * Any help appreciated
 * Mike
 *  Thread Starter [musthave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musthave/)
 * (@musthave)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/#post-195073)
 * Heres the first lines of the admin.php file in question :
 * <?php
    require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/admin-
   functions.php’); auth_redirect();
 * header(‘Expires: Mon, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT’);
    header(‘Last-Modified: ‘ .
   gmdate(‘D, d M Y H:i:s’) . ‘ GMT’); header(‘Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate,
   max-age=0’); header(‘Pragma: no-cache’);
 * $dogs = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->categories”);
    foreach ($dogs
   as $catt) { $cache_categories[$catt->cat_ID] = $catt; }
 * get_currentuserinfo();
 *  Thread Starter [musthave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/musthave/)
 * (@musthave)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/#post-195074)
 * Also on top of my blog I get :
 * $dbh=mysql_connect (“localhost”, “**********”, “”) or die (‘I cannot connect 
   to the database because: ‘ . mysql_error()); mysql_select_db (“*********”);
 * I have taken the databse name out myself.
 * Mike
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/#post-195172)
 * Who is your host ?
    From your information it is hard to say what to do but if
   you do NOT have any posts I would go for a clean install of 1.5
 * If you DO have posts I would consider exporting the database and again going 
   for a clean install.
 *  [rtmyers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rtmyers/)
 * (@rtmyers)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/#post-195238)
 * We are upgrading from 1.2 to 1.5. After deleting old files and uploading new 
   files, and editing wp-config.php apprpriately, a visit to wp-admin/upgrade.php
   results in no output whatsoever (although the delay of 3-5 seconds indicates 
   it’s trying to execute wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php).
 * If we want to do a “clean install” of 1.5, then what is the procedure for exporting/
   importing the existing content?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-update-to-work/#post-195239)
 * “Clean install” above meant a new install of WP 1.5 letting the script to create
   the table in an empty database.
    If you just install the WP files on the server
   and then import the old tasbles into the DB, you’ll still have to run upgrade.
   php (the table structure in WP1.2.x and 1.5 is different, so the upgrade.php 
   is taking care of that).

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