Today I upgraded the “other” site I manage and what a pain that was compared to this one. I realized later that I did this one incorrectly and it still seems work. But on the other site I use GoogleMapper and it’s not all that forgiving if you do things differently.
I’m writing this in hopes next time around I’ll remember. The other site I manage has a strange directory structure because of the way the host maintains a home directory.
statrixblog.statrix.com is a subdomain under the public_html directory here and I can keep all my files in ../public_html/statrixblog. On the other site there’s no ../public_html, the .. in the last example is the public_html file. So if I want more than one site up there it would have to be accessed as www.domain.com/site1 and www.domain.com/site2. The problem is I want to be able to keep things in their own directory and be accessed only as www.domain.com on that site. That means an index file pointing to the correct directory. No real problem, except that GoogleMapper is more or less hardwired to a different structure so I have to manually edit the locations. I’m not happy about that, but Ilike GoogleMapper, so there you go.
The other problem is I forget to uncheck an option which drops the MySQL tables by default when the plugin is deactivated. That was painful – I had to recreate a bunch of maps. I hope that never happens again. 🙂
In any case it’s done now.
Slower, cheaper, less useful…