How did I find myself in this mess? My blog was only two weeks old and I could no longer post to it, not through lack of trying but dreaded MySQL and File Permission errors.
And I own the hosting company that hosts it!
Just like a customer I got in contact with support and had them try figure it out. For once I was tasting my own medicine and I don’t mind admitting I didn’t like it.
The problem would be declared solved only to find a few hours later it was back. Can Linux really lose control of file permissions so easy?
The site had been installed on one of our older machines ready for decommissioning, so rather than kick a fuss we decided to move it to one of the new machines. But that just led to exactly the same problems. By this time I was getting just a little snaky.
Eventually the decision was to move the site to yet another machine and yet again the same errors. The final solution was to delete everything, start with a fresh installation, copy over the old database, upload the theme and plugins again (not forgetting the uploads directory) and here we are.
Two weeks later, a lousy excuse for not posting, and a lot of the original enthusiasm lost in the drains of the cybersewer.
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