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WP-cache broken after last update at Dreamhost

jez — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:57:50 +0000

Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.1 using Dreamhost’s one-click-install and just realized that the WP-Cache Plugin is broken.
Damn, I hope I can find someone to assist me fixing it. Got similar problems?
Seems like the cache folder is no longer writable…

Edit:
I’m very sorry for the inconvenience, it appears that your wp-content
directory was owned by root. I’ve chowned it back to your user so you can
enable wp-cache now.

== it works now! :)

Dreamhost support panel overhauled

jez — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:22:45 +0000

Dreamhost has overhauled their support panel and added a “5 steps” to report system.
If you are not a Dreamhost customer, click the thumbnails below for more detail:

Urm… Great

jez — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:38:44 +0000

Dear Visitors to h4x3d.com,
sorry for the downtime over the past 24 hours. My websites got moved over to a new server and somehow some screws got loose. You may find some links/images/files not yet working, but I am sure the guys over at dreamhost are doing their best to sort this mess out.

We are now on nehi server and no longer on the laggy clamato. Thanks to the great time-off my advertisement earnings have been massive: 0,78 cent in 24 hours. Awesome!

UPDATE

Seems like they (dreamhost.com) found out what was the loose screw:


I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you.	It appears there
was an issue with DNS, and our servers were still pointing to the old
webserver, instead of the new one you were moved to.

I have manually pushed the DNS for all your domains, but it will still
take up to 24 hours for your sites to be fully working.  Some of your
sites may have already propagated, but some will still display the
'bad_httpd_conf" error.

If you continue to experience problems after 24 hours, let me know!  You
can email me directly at (name deleted)@dreamhost.com, or simply reply to this
ticket.

Thanks!

(name deleted)

How to delete wordpress themes folders from Dreamhost

jez — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:16:08 +0000

Update:
In case you upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2 on Dreamhost, and you got many domain.tld.old folders on your account, wasting space and wasting your account overview on ftp,
log on to your shell and do a quick dir to check on the domains, then do a rm -r domain.tld.old
and your specified backup will be deleted. See below what it looked like for me*

It occured to me that I wasn’t able to delete all folders from my site’s wordpress theme directory,
for some reasons individual theme folders would remain there and the ftp client would output:
“No such directory”, or “Directory not empty”, even though I ordered the ftp to delete the folders.

Here is how to get things done the brutal way using your shell account:

Login to your shell account, use bash:
cd to your domain in question and your wordpress theme folder using
cd wp-content
try “rm -r themes”,
in case it doesnt work,
go to the themes folder by typing “cd themes”,
do a quick “dir” to see which themes are still there.

you can delete individual files using “rm filename.ext”,
you should be able to delete things either one by one, or once at a time using the commands mentioned above.

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All activity may be logged by DreamHost Web Hosting.

[clamato]$ dir
CameronDiazZone.com          favoloso.info       pizza.qpoz.com
CameronDiazZone.com.old      favoloso.info.old   qpoz.com
Maildir                      fontys.qpoz.com     qpoz.com.old
VICTORIABECKHAMZONE.COM      get.h4x3d.com       static01.h4x3d.com
VICTORIABECKHAMZONE.COM.old  h4x3d.com           static01.heidiklumzone.com
blackscreenday.com           h4x3d.com.old       static01.j-e-z.de
blackscreenday.com.old       heidiklumzone.com   static02.h4x3d.com
d.qpoz.com                   idefics.klewes.com  static02.heidiklumzone.com
d.qpoz.com.old               j-e-z.de            static03.h4x3d.com
dar-lin.de                   j-e-z.de.old        static04.h4x3d.com
dar-lin.de.old               klewes.com          trancin.com
derdritteort.de              logs                trancin.com.old
derdritteort.de.old          mp3.trancin.com     webalizer

[clamato]$ rm -r dar-lin.de.old
[clamato]$ rm -r derdritteort.de.old
[clamato]$ rm -r qpoz.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r trancin.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r h4x3d.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r d.qpoz.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r favoloso.info.old
[clamato]$ rm -r j-e-z.de.old
[clamato]$ rm -r CameronDiazZone.com.old
[clamato]$ rm -r VICTORIABECKHAMZONE.COM.old
[clamato]$ rm -r blackscreenday.com.old