This morning I upgraded my Gallery and Wordpress installations to the latest and greatest. Wordpress was brought to my attention due to finding out that a company I used to have dealings with was hacked via a dodgy wordpress install. Not good. Looks like I’m going to need to keep a closer eye on releases.
Gallery was also long overdue an upgrade. It, unfortunately, was not as painless as wordpress.
I have the software installed in the “shared hosting” mode, meaning I get one full install of the software onto my server, and then I can install cheap copies onto any virtual hosts. This, for the most part, works great. Upgrading, however, is a different story.
To upgrade in the shared hosting environment, you need to first upgrade your main install. This is easy, simply extract the new files over the old, tada. Unfortunately, that’s not all. You then need to visit each gallery installation using the shared install and manually go through the 6 step upgrade procedure. This involves finding long-ago-set passwords in configuration files too, not the most fun thing I’ve done :)
Anyway, all complete. Until next week or something, when the new ‘must upgrade’ versions become available.