A short while ago, i was having problems uploading files in wordpress. It seems that it was trying to write to /tmp, even though in my php configuration the clearly specifies the upload directory to be something completely different.

During the process of basically trying to solve this issue, i decided to have a little spring clean and remove some unneccesary redundant folders from my web server directory, which is when i typed in the following:

rm -rf htdocs

Safe to say, i wasn’t very pleased with the results. Not to mention, i haven’t done any recent backup’s, so my lovely customized version of wordpress more or less vanished in an instant.

The good news however is that i managed to more or less get everything working again. I even took the time to upgrade to the latest version of wordpress (which even included the sidebar widget functionality, which left me with one less thing to install).

So i guess the motto of this story is: BACKUP! BACKUP! BACKUP!

Until next time…