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WordPress auto-update

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Just a quick note. WordPress 2.9.2 came out today, and I found that since my server upgrade, the core auto-update/upgrade feature wasn’t working. It wanted me to have FTP access.

Turns out that the website folder itself (in my case, since I host on a Mac, a folder within /Library/WebServer/Documents) wasn’t owned by www. Once I chowned that to www, the auto-upgrade worked perfectly.

Everything else was already owned by www… so, just make sure, the folder wordpress resides in is also owned by the web user (the user httpd runs as).

Good luck! And remember, Happiness is only a chown away.

Finally got SVN going…

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I finally got svn working. So the “Code” tab on the title bar now works.

This is mainly thanks to this article on Apple’s developer website. It doesn’t seem to have any wrong data, even though it’s for 10.5.

I’ve updated the few links on my site, as well as the InstallRRD script I posted yesterday to reflect the change in location for these files.

Now if I could just get a resume posted, all the above links work be “valid”. Maybe in a week or two.

Installing RRDTool 1.4 in Snow Leopard (Server) 10.6

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Wanting to get some info on mail traffic on our mail server, I wanted to get mailgraph installed and functioning on our server. While there are a few sources of info on the web on getting RRDTool installed in 10.6, one of them only deals with RRDTool 1.2, and the other is in Japanese, though it does cover RRDTool 1.4.2.

While I thought I would take the time to write up an article on how to install RRDTool 1.4.2 on 10.6, I lost interest somewhat, so I’ve just made up a basic script to install it for you. The only requirement is to install Xcode 3.2.1, and you’ll want to `sudo su -` before running the script. It will make a src directory in whatever path you run it in, download all the source, and compile it. It will log all the output to a file “build.log” in your current directory. By default, it installs everything in /usr/local. If you want to change that, you’ll need to modify the first few lines in the script.

Feel free to use, and if you want to see what it’s doing, just take a look at the script.

RRDTool install script: here

Good luck!