As I warned a couple of times, the site would be down, and for most of today it was. A problem inherent with my installation remains, however. It probably stems from the fact that my WordPress installation dates back to version 2.0.2. Ten years ago MySQL was converted to a newer version to be made compatible, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that added to the trouble. It seems I’ve hit an update wall.
Bluehost was nice about setting me back to run on an outdated version of the PHP interpreter. As I expected, there was also a problem within the .htaccess file for the HTTP service. That was the immediate cause of today’s problem, and Bluehost has fixed that, with my thanks.
To keep the blog running as it should, eventually I must force myself to install a new instance of WordPress from scratch and see if it’s possible for the MySQL database to be restored onto it. Perhaps another conversion will be required. My plan is to do all of that with a complete up-to-date software installation on my primary desktop PC, and then migrate it online. It’ll require a lot of work and head scratching, which is why I’ve been putting it off.
Already ran into another problem, requiring yet another workaround. Running a MySQL backup to download a copy is failing with a timeout. Sending it as a mail attachment used to fail, but now it’s working. Go figure.
Good luck, Doug. We’re all counting on you.