Day: January 16, 2017

I just realized: My first post on my own OpenVMS system (Personal Workstation 500, 256 Mb) was in 11-Nov-2006.. There haven’t been many changes, except for new hardware (DS10, 512Mb) and memory upgrade (which had it own merits, so it took 2 and a half weeks (between 10-aug-2015 and 29-aug-2015)), a change of webserver (SWS/Apache to WASD), PHP (HP’s limited 5.2 port to Nark Berryman’s complete one (5.6 is installed but not yet activated) and MySQL (4.3 to 5.5).
Most have been mentioned in the system log but strangely enough, I failed to locate them…

WordPress updated
Updated all blogs to latest version of WordPress (4.7.1) in a few steps after downloading to workstation and FTP to VMS:

1. Unzip to destination

2. Rename directory (to get rid of ‘standard installation’ and to be able to install aside running version)

3. Define logical for this environment

4. Run WP2VMS.COM procedure to replace underscores (caused by Unzip) by dots, when needed

5. redefine logicals for all blogs to refer to the new WP version.

6. Run the update scripts on each (if applicable)

All within 20 minutes, from nothing at all to all blogs done.

No problems (so far).

Bad date?
Noted that all publication dates since 04-Nov-2016 were off one day, and found out that some time in October, the time zone of the blog changed from YCT+0 to UCT+3. Reset to the right value and had to re-calculate the date and time of publication three hours backward. So that’s now corrected.