Cannot downgrade an existing wordpress deploy about puppet-wordpress HOT 3 OPEN

Hi,

I don't think you have a better way to do it with this module, and i wonder if downgrading wordpress with a puppet recipe is a good idea (what happens with the database and plugins installed?)

Perhaps yo could install wordpdress in another folder, migrate manually (or using a custom script to copy data and files) and then remove the previous installation?

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thanks for the reply enekogb,
You're correct, there might be problems with the database. But in my case, I've built a basebox which already has wordpress on it, and I've snapshotted the configuration to make life easier for my developers and my QA team. Attempting to downgrade works, so long as I have a provisioning step that removes the index.php file. Then the downgrade will proceed. If there is a problem with the database, then I believe I can just drop the wordpress database, and then logging into wordpress will initiate the 5 minute install. Perhaps an override would work. Something to force the downgrade if there is a previous instance.

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Hi,

In a similar scenario (not using Wordpress thought) i developed a simple
mcollective agent that deletes the index.php file, so i could run the
upgrade from my puppet master.

https://docs.puppetlabs.com/mcollective/simplerpc/agents.html

I you have more than one machine, perhaps you can do something similar.

You can also install WP-Cli (http://wp-cli.org/) so you can reinstall
wordpress database from the shell or a shell script ;)

2015-02-16 22:43 GMT+01:00 John Schank [email protected]:

thanks for the reply enekogb,
You're correct, there might be problems with the database. But in my case,
I've built a basebox which already has wordpress on it, and I've
snapshotted the configuration to make life easier for my developers and my
QA team. Attempting to downgrade works, so long as I have a provisioning
step that removes the index.php file. Then the downgrade will proceed. If
there is a problem with the database, then I believe I can just drop the
wordpress database, and then logging into wordpress will initiate the 5
minute install. Perhaps an override would work. Something to force the
downgrade if there is a previous instance.

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