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NotQuiteSane
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 Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:32 am Post subject: Resurrecting a dead wordpress blog |
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I have a wordpress blog that has been defunct for about two years, and I do not recall why it went down. The host (http://mac.isa-geek.org) is good, but the actual address (http://mac.isa-geek.org/wordpress/life) returns a 404.
The link in my .sig should redirect to the above address, it's failure I think is either a dns or mod_rewrite issue and co-incidental to the actual issue. That domain is valid, verified a couple hours ago.
As far as I can tell, all the files required for my blog are present, and according to my host, the mysql database should still have the posts.
My problem is I am unsure how to revive my blog without destroying my old posts. Can I just follow the wordpress startup guide I originally used, or do I need to do a different set of steps to get it back up?
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Veldrin
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http://mac.isa-geek.org/wordpress/ returns an intersting response: are you sure, that the database is up and running? Is the username/password - to access the database - correct?
| Quote: | | The link in my .sig should redirect to the above address, it's failure I think is either a dns or mod_rewrite issue and co-incidental to the actual issue. That domain is valid, verified a couple hours ago. |
DNS queries return 2 different IP addresses. 24.113.88.186 for mac.isa-geek.org and 24.113.82.185 for life.asisee.it.
are you sure, that life.asisee.it has an apache running to redirect the traffic to mac.isa-geek.org?
life.asisee.it does not reply to http requests.
| Quote: | | My problem is I am unsure how to revive my blog without destroying my old posts. Can I just follow the wordpress startup guide I originally used, or do I need to do a different set of steps to get it back up? |
Just the usual pointers: take a backup of everything, especially the current databases state: mysql_dump --all-databases -u root -p > my-databases.sql (or similar) should do the trick.
Just installing creates the risk of destoying the existing database.
Dumping the database, creating a new - with the install procedure, and the reimport the dump could be more successful.
PS: I am no wordpress specialist!
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