Well, I have the basics of my blog recovered now, so almost all of my posts going back several years are once again available.
In my last post titled Lesson Re-learned: Backups !, I admitted that I had committed the cardinal sin of making changes to my web site without doing a backup first (walking the tightrope without a net).
Luckily for me I had installed the WP Super Cache plugin, so all of my content actually still existed as static files, and being a bit of a hacker, I was able to throw together some code to effectively recover my posts.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Lesson Re-learned: Backups !
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I just shot my blog in the foot, or more accurately, I didn't follow IT 101 and back things up before making a change.
I had moved my site to be completely WordPress based a while ago, and as a result I had a bit of a convoluted setup on my server.
When I first set up my WordPress blog it was as a sub-domain of accuweaver.com, and was housed at http://wordpress.accuweaver.com/ (also aliased to http://blog.accuweaver.com/). The http://www.accuweaver.com/ site just static pages that hadn't changed for years.
So when I finally got my blog set up to host the few static pages I had, I just changed the directory on my server to have a symbolic link to the directory where wordpress.accuweaver.com had it's content:
This actually worked really well, since the content was only in one place, and all I had to do was change the host name in WordPress.
Homer Simpson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]I just shot my blog in the foot, or more accurately, I didn't follow IT 101 and back things up before making a change.
I had moved my site to be completely WordPress based a while ago, and as a result I had a bit of a convoluted setup on my server.
When I first set up my WordPress blog it was as a sub-domain of accuweaver.com, and was housed at http://wordpress.accuweaver.com/ (also aliased to http://blog.accuweaver.com/). The http://www.accuweaver.com/ site just static pages that hadn't changed for years.
So when I finally got my blog set up to host the few static pages I had, I just changed the directory on my server to have a symbolic link to the directory where wordpress.accuweaver.com had it's content:
- Removed the directory httpdocs from /var/www/vhosts/accuweaver.com
- Added a link in that folder to /var/www/vhosts/accuweaver.com/subdomains/wordpress/httpdocs.
This actually worked really well, since the content was only in one place, and all I had to do was change the host name in WordPress.
Friday, May 3, 2013
How to Get a Google Voice Number for Your Own Email Address
If you want to use some Google services (like Google Voice), and have them associated with your own email address, it’s not all that difficult.
First, if you already have a Google account (like a GMail address), you will want to log out of by clicking on your name or icon up in the upper right corner of any Google app, and then click the “Sign Out” button:
First, if you already have a Google account (like a GMail address), you will want to log out of by clicking on your name or icon up in the upper right corner of any Google app, and then click the “Sign Out” button:
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