As I’ve mentioned before, I could easily use Blogger or somesuch for hosting my blog, but instead I decided it’d be fun to host and maintain my own blog. However, part and parcel of that, is handling the upgrade process myself to ensure I get all the latest security fixes.

Its always a bit nerve-wracking. I of course back everything up first, but there’s still the chance of ending up with a knackered blog and having to spend ages trying to fix it.

I’m starting to get the hang of it now though. As I’m on the latest point releases, I don’t need to worry about database upgrades thank goodness. The only problem I had this time, was that my permalink structure was broken, rendering site-navigation stuffed. A minor issue I’m sure you’ll agree

Fortunately, I’ve got it fixed now. I switched from using the default link structure (post/page ids passed via querystring) a month or so ago, and am now using a more human-reading link structure (hover over a post title to see what I’m talking about). As a side effect to this, it seems that when I’m upgrading, it helps to switch back to the default, and then re-enable the re-writing again. Not sure why it works, it just does.

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