Transition Technology: Ticket #699: Update Core & Plugins on transitionculture.org

ed — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:49:20 GMT

please double check that the TC blog aggregation that is re-publishign the TC blogs from TN.org/tc on TC privately (not published) is still working now and works following the update :)

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chris — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:19:42 GMT

component changed from Live server to Parrot server

Hi, sorry I haven't got around to doing this sooner, thanks for picking it up.

I was intending to clone the site and test the upgrade on a copy of the site first.

There is also this ticket for the upgrade, ticket:619, it appears you have done the upgrade already, checking with the commandline wp tool:

cd /home/tc/sites/default
wp core version
3.7.1

There is also this outstanding issue with the site: ticket:656

chris — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:24:02 GMT

Replying to chris:

it appears you have done the upgrade already

Oops I got that wrong, the latest version is 3.8.1.

sam — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:51:48 GMT

Hi Chris,

Sorry didn't realise there was a ticket for this already. Do you want to go ahead and do it?

I was just going to back up the database on the basis it's only an archive and Wordpress generally updates in a problem free way.

A full copy sounds like the safer way to go though.

I'd probably stick Wordfence on it as per comment here https://trac.transitionnetwork.org/trac/ticket/656

Best

Sam

sam — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:18:23 GMT

So I exported the content as a .xml file just in case the backup plugin broke things.

I then installed https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/ & I'm currently backing up the database & filesystem to Dropbox.

I'll then install Wordfence and see if there is any warnings/malware . Once that's done I'll update the plugins, then core.

Then test it's all still working.

hours deleted

chris — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:17:07 GMT

hours 0 deleted

I got this email as root on wiki:ParrotServer:

From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@parrot.webarch.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:41:59 +0000
To: tc@parrot.webarch.net
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
  samrossiter@transitionentwork.org
    Unrouteable address

I'm not sure why this email failed, but can look it up in the logs if needs be.

The email body:

Alert generated at Monday 10th of March 2014 at 08:41:59 PM Critical Problems:

Post contains a suspected malware URL: A July Round-up of What’s Happening out in the World of Transition
Comment with author Jonathan contains a suspected malware URL.
Your WordPress version is out of date
The Plugin "Bad Behavior" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "Breadcrumb NavXT - Adminstration Interface" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "Breadcrumb NavXT - Core" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "BWP Google XML Sitemaps" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "Google Analytics for WordPress" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "MP6" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "Query Monitor" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "Subscribe2" needs an upgrade.
The Plugin "User Switching" needs an upgrade.

sam — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:13:01 GMT

Hi Chris

It's just a case of fat fingers & typo in email. I'll update it.

I chickened out of doing the core update without having a test run so i'll do a test on my local machine first.

I did the plugin update & Wordfence install yesterday. Have you seen any bounced/spam emails since about 6pm yesterday?

Thanks

Sam

chris — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:47:03 GMT

Replying to sam:

Have you seen any bounced/spam emails since about 6pm yesterday?

Nope. Last one:

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:33:38 +0000

ed — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:05:07 GMT

Sam to follow up as discussed on 26/03

hours, totalhours changed

sam — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:01:31 GMT

hours changed from 0.0 to 2.0
totalhours changed from 0.0 to 2.0

Updated and spam issue appears fixed too:https://trac.transitionnetwork.org/trac/ticket/656 I removed a couple of dodgy spam/malware comments based on the wordpress scan.

Archiving of Rob's blog to private posts confirmed as still working.

status changed; resolution set

sam — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:01:55 GMT

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to fixed