Upgraded the site to Wordpress 1.5 without too many headaches. Please let me know of any bugs.
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Elve, J. E. (Feb 22, 2005). Site Upgrade. Synesthesia. Retrieved Dec 01, 2008 from http://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/archives/2005/02/22/site-upgrade/
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March 4th, 2005 at 4:13 am
Julian, thanks for your feedback on WordPress.
My problem is taking the plunge. I don’t want to be running a server myself, so I need a friendly hosting service.
I’m quite prepared to hack and experiment, but need to know I’m not going to screw up anyone else, and have only limted understanding of PHP and what is actually happening on a server that is hosting it.
ie when I see some programme script in PHP, and read a language manual, I can see how I might edit / create alternative code to achieve some end. What I just don’t understand is what is actually running where ? Is it simply interpreted when I upload a new .php file ? Sorry to be such a dummy. Any pointers would be apreciated.
March 5th, 2005 at 10:42 am
Ian
Lots of hosting services offer you PHP on the server, so in my mind it’s a “necessary but not sufficient” criterion when it comes to choosing an ISP. However any competent ISP will have set it up so it’s very difficult for you to screw up what’s happening for other people.
The only time I have ever had a problem with something I installed was with Twiki (which is Perl rather than PHP), and the problem was how it was calling an external diff program on the server - the ISP asked me to kill it because it was taking the server load up to 90%…
As to what is running where, PHP is usually installed as a module within the Apache web server. The server is set up so that any pages with the php suffix get run through the PHP module before being served across the network to the web browser. The PHP module just passes through everything it sees until it sees the opening <?php tag. At that point it starts interpreting the PHP code and sending the result to the output stream. When it sees the ?> tag it goes back to just passing it through. That’s how you can just put a little bit of PHP in the middle of a page.
So the PHP code is running on the server.
Hope this helps!