Title: Installing upgrades
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Installing upgrades
* Resolved [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/)
* I just wiped my entire blog and discarded it’s corrupted database (after harvesting
out as much of the original text as possible.) Then I reinstalled a backwards
version of WP from a Plesk Aps file, and encountered the same problem that lead
to my upgrade last time around; my posts are in backward order due to some MySQL
bug.
* I’d love to upgrade, ’cause this backwards blog thing is a waste of disk space,
but my question is how? Last time I clicked on something, somewhere on a page
that installed verion 2.3.2 for me. But I can’t remember how I got there now.
* Any ideas?
* I tried replacing the wp files via ftp, I get nada, nothing, no more blog, no
more login screens. It’s like my connection to the database is broken. About
the only thing the local host support can help me with is reinstalling the last
saved (backward) version; They don’t DO WP.
* Can anyone help me with this?
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* [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
* (@kmessinger)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699662)
* All I can suggest is to back up your database and then follow the install instructions
for 2.3.3. Pay attention to which files you should keep – but your version is
a long way back. I don’t know where you can find a button to push that will install
it for you.
* If you get an error, which you will if the database is broken, post it here for
additional help.
* Oh, you might consider a different host.
* [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
* (@kmessinger)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699665)
* Here is a easy install for 2.3.3. I haven’t tried it but I think it should work
fine.
* [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/115020?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/115020?replies=4)
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699674)
* I went into the ftp folder WordPress. I deleted all of the old files, I added
all of the new ones from 2.3.2 folder I check and double checked the information
in a wp_config.php file was correct. I deleted everthing in cache. no plugins
on.
* Still I get this message from my browser “Safari can’t open the page “http://
rwbjv.org/WordPress/” because it could not load any data from this location.”
Opera won’t open, Firefox won’t open. NOTHING. I can’t login, I can’t see squat
other than readme that goes nowhere.
* Nothing opens. It’s like NOTHING IS THERE! I don’t have time for this! I’ve tried
to reconnect my database with my folder before with no results. Is this some
sort of evil Plesk trick?
* What is going ON!!!
* [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
* (@kmessinger)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699720)
* Maybe you should not use Plesk and use a standard FTP program. As far as I can
tell, you are missing some files or your permissions are incorrect.
* Try putting a test index.html file into your WordPress folder. Can you see that?
If so, you should be able to see the index.php if it is there.
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699749)
* I stayed up until 2:30 messing with this and I was just so tired and fed-up with
the whole thing. It just doesn’t make any sense.
* I used a standard ftp program to install the WP 2.3.2 files. I believe that the
last time I tried to use Plesk to install the upgrade, it didn’t work that way
either, but I might try again. I can view plain html files in the WordPress folder,
but I can’t view any php files—for example, readme.html opens, but the links
don’t work.
* Yeah, index.php should load the header (and all) but it doesn’t.
and I can’t
get an admin login screen either. I can’t open any php in the browser (except
in source view).
* I guess I have to do a new install via ftp and start a new blog. If that doesn’t
work then I’ll try doing the same install from scratch using Plesk. If that doesn’t
work, I’ll have to assume that the ISP/Plesk is messing this up. I can get WP
installed from the Aps directory, but its that old backwards-broken version of
WP.
The local host told me Id have to go get the upgrade (myself), but that
doesn’t seem to work worth pish.
* llprice
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699752)
* I can’t start a new blog to test. Only one database allowed by the ISP and it
is in use by another Ap. (The blog that can’t find it). I tried to use PhpMyAdmin
one more time to join the db and the blog URL, but that just doesn’t work.
* If I call the ISP tech guy one more time, he’ll probably scream at me before
I get a chance to scream at him about this mess.
* [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
* (@moshu)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699754)
* You can have more blogs in one database… You should read the intructions BEFORE
just jumping into doing things!
[Upgrading_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress)
[Installing_Multiple_Blogs#Single_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs#Single_Database)
* [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
* (@moshu)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699755)
* p.s. Accroding to this:
[http://rwbjv.org/WordPress/wp-content/themes/default/style.css](http://rwbjv.org/WordPress/wp-content/themes/default/style.css)
your files are there – just something went wrong during the upgrade/install…
it shows only a blank page. You may want to search for “blog blank page” and
similar keywords.
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699788)
* Regarding multiple databases, I can’t run the installation from new versions
of WP that I have uploaded via FTP. Nothing happens.
* I seem only able to install the buggy old WP version that displays posts in backwards
order (oldest on top; newest at the bottom of the page).
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699789)
* ISP allowed me to set up new database
I installed thenew wp 2.3.3 and changed
the folder name to avoid confusion with the old WordPress folder with faulty
attachment to the old database. Open up new wp-config-sample.php and changed
to wp-config.php entered the new database name. entered the new db login & pass
* Went back to the readme.html
* Opened /wp-admin/install.php in the browser. Could see some setup activity on
bottombar — I assume it was setting up the tables needed for the blog. Nothing
happened
* GOT: “If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again.
If it fails again, please go to the support forums with as much data as you can
gather.”
* Double checked the config.php
* Went to PhpMyAdmin.
* found this: “wbjv_db (0) “
“No tables found in database.”
* “MySQL client version: 4.1.20”
* It looks as if the install.php cannot access the database if I do the install
via ftp.
* [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
* (@whooami)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699790)
* _It looks as if the install.php cannot access the database if I do the install
via ftp._
* meh, no.. that has nothing to do with it, I assure you.
* Something that you are doing isnt right, but thats not it. WordPress doesnt care
how the files get there, just that they are.
* Im willing to take a shot at installing it for you if you like.. If so contact
me off-list at whoo -AT- whoo.org
* I would need your ftp info, and your mysql info.
* Its up to you, no harm if you dont want the help.
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699791)
* I wonder if the legacy Frontpage files in the root directory, place by a previous
web-manager, are causing problems? I don’t want to go removing the old stuff
willi-nilly, but if files like vti_bin and vti_if.html might be a problem, I
could trash them, as I use Dreamweaver / bbedit.
* Also kmessinger had a tip about an addition to the .htaccess file “SeFilterInheritance
Off” when addressing another issue like mine.
There is legacy script about frontpage
in that file as well:
* # -FrontPage-
* IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
*
order deny,allow deny from all allow from all order deny,allow deny from all
* Is there anything here I should delete?
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699792)
* whooami, Thanks for the offer. I can’t give out login info. before I speak with
the host support guy, and he won’t be in until Tues.
* Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
* (@llprice)
* [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-upgrades/#post-699847)
* Solution found. The host sysop found following fix:
[http://wordpress.org/support/topic/157336](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/157336)
I’d never have found this error in the code on my own.
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