Alexandru Dinulescu's Thoughts

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This post is sort of a checklist of things to check before you upload you’re files on the webserver, and this will be updated with more things as time allows it.

One of the most annoying things you can get is that if you maintain a localhost version of your website, and your live website has the google analytics code in it, when you upload your local files overwriting the files on the webserver, those newer files you have on your localhost may not have the google analytics script set, so you will end up like me with 1 week of uncounted traffic. Stupid and Newbie mistake, meh note to self, never push updates after midnight because shit may happen.

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For the past 2 weeks or so i’ve been rewriting the Inanis Theme for wordpress, because i really liked the design and functionality offered but i hated the way it was coded. So i rewrote all the code. You can get the original Inanis Theme from here

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After scouring the web for like 1h in order to find this information, i did eventually find it, however it was in a couple of different posts on another blog. In order to keep stuff simple, let’s put everything together. Using the benefits of feedburner is a no-brainer, because you get a shitload of useful statistics. The only problem is that you will need to maintain 2 lists of feeds, your own internal feed + the official feedburner’s. And now depends on how many users you have subscribed.

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Sometimes if your wordpress DB is down, you should normally get an error saying that the DB is unavailable and then some messages will appear with the possible cause of this, like the DB name is not found, the settings in the wp-config folder are wrong, and the like. However there is a case that surprise surprise you get on the page with the INSTALLATION of wordpress and you’ve just lost your WP blog.

The file is found in wp-admin/install.php

As a good rule of thumb, it’s advisable to delete all readme.txt, nfo, info files from all plug-ins, there have been reports of some chinese bots crawling wordpress blogs for these, so save yourself some bandwidth and delete those

In order to make sure this doesnt happen at all, there are 3 methods

• Method 1: JUST NUKE the INSTALL.php file. After the blog has been installed you dont need this file anymore so just delete it
• Method 2: htaccess file
  # PROTECT install.php
  <Files install.php>
   Order Allow,Deny
   Deny from all
   Satisfy all
  </Files>
• Method 3: Replace it entirely with something else that is written by you from the start

Problem Fixed