12 Jun 09 Blog Updated

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 using the automatic method they now provide. I have to say I was very impressed and happy that I didn’t have to break out the FTP client. You just type your FTP credentials into a form, hit submit, and it goes out and gets the latest WordPress tarball, unpacks it, and updates your database. Wow.

Of course it didn’t go off without a hitch. For some reason, any new directories that get created on my server have permissions 700 instead of the more usual 755. My webspace is owned by my user account, and Apache is considered “other” here, so it could not read the files in the new directories. Once I figured that out and did a chmod all was well.

The other drawback of using the automatic method is there may be a chance some php files are no longer being used anymore, and are gathering as cruft. I suppose I will do a clean manual install every once in a while to delete these orphan files.