Site Upgrade
The server that Ricketyclick lives on has old versions of mySQL and PHP. The way to upgrade them is for Hosting Matters to move me to a new server.
I’ve asked to have that done. This involves pointing DNS to the new machine, so it may take a bit for the links to propagate.
I’ll post when it’s complete.
[update 2008 03 02]
OK, it looks like the move was successful, and while it took awhile for all the DNS caches between HM and myself to refresh, it seems things are working fine.
Once again, I thank Hosting Matters for their quick support of someone flying by the seat of his pants.
[additional info]
After the move was complete, I noticed that although cpanel showed PHP was up to date, mySQL was still stale. I was told that cpanel was just showing it wrong, but a bit more digging showed there are two parts to mySQL. The phpMyAdmin page shows the server version as 5.0.45, while the mySQL client version is 4.1.22. The cpanel page must be reporting the client version.
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Oh, and I updated WordPress as well; there was a crucial security update I was lacking. I would have done it earlier, but for some reason the Fantastico! installation package wasn’t showing up in cpanel; that turned out to be just a link that went missing when cpanel was updated some time back, which Annette restored for me.
Anyway, it all works, and I’m calling it done.