Breaking and Fixing

I broke my website today – I broke it bad. But because I am Just That Slick, I was able to repair everything without anybody noticing. Well, I did get one e-mail from a friend letting me know something was wrong, but I e-mailed her back and said something to the effect of “you caught me with my pants down!”

The reason I needed to repair everything was because I improperly tried to move the files in http://www.amanita.net/wordpress into http://journal.amanita.net so I could use the cookies for password-protected posts. (If you’re reading this on LiveJournal, posts that are friends-only on LJ are password-protected on my website.) So I tried to switch and – kaboom! Everything was all screwed up, I couldn’t log in anywhere, and things were Not Good. So I figured I needed to reinstall WordPress. After some fussing with the tarball, I was able to get everything uploaded where I wanted it. In order to make the install go smoothly, though, I renamed my original database – the one with all the config and posts and comments and everything – to etoile_backup. I then created a new database for the journal, ran the WP installation normally, and had a nice mostly-empty journal database. The scary part was dropping that database altogether and then renaming etoile_backup back to what my journal database is supposed to be called. I was a bit nervous that it would break stuff, lose my archives, etc. but everything went smoothly. Oh, and did I mention I was doing all of this database creation, renaming, etc. in cPanel and phpMyAdmin using Lynx? Yeah, I told you: I Rule.

I moved my plugins and my themes over too, and everything seems just fine. Phew! I don’t have the alternate admin CSS that I used to, but I was getting tired of that anyway. Now I just have to find the courage to delete the old wordpress directory – I’m paranoid about that kind of thing. And those of you who have my password for posts – it should be working now.