Comments on: Wordpress MU Site Upgrade Bug: Your server may not be able to connect to blogs running on it http://www.jayminkapish.com/2009/10/08/wordpress-mu-site-upgrade-bug-your-server-may-not-be-able-to-connect-to-blogs-running-on-it/ About Me and Wordpress Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:24:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: Bradley Brown http://www.jayminkapish.com/2009/10/08/wordpress-mu-site-upgrade-bug-your-server-may-not-be-able-to-connect-to-blogs-running-on-it/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Bradley Brown Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:22:32 +0000 http://blog.kapish.co.in/?p=180#comment-67 Hi there, I'm a tech for a school district using Wordpress MU with 236 blogs running on it. I encountered this error during the upgrade from 2.6.something to 2.8.6, and started digging around for an answer when I came across your tutorial. It made sense to me, so I tried it. Unfortunately, it didn't solve my particular case. I dug around a bit further and found that some of the users were using a theme called Book Love. It must not be compatible with the newer version of Wordpress. According to my error_log for Apache2, it was causing errors: # tail /var/log/apache2/error_log "[Wed Dec 09 11:41:18 2009] [error] [client 10.1.1.23] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/blogz/public_html/wp-content/themes/book-love-10/functions.php on line 28" I went into the blog list, found the users blogs and clicked Edit. I removed book-love and Book Love entries, causing it to use the default theme, and Wordpress was then able to upgrade the site past these blogs. --Brad Brown Hi there,

I’m a tech for a school district using Wordpress MU with 236 blogs running on it. I encountered this error during the upgrade from 2.6.something to 2.8.6, and started digging around for an answer when I came across your tutorial. It made sense to me, so I tried it. Unfortunately, it didn’t solve my particular case.

I dug around a bit further and found that some of the users were using a theme called Book Love. It must not be compatible with the newer version of Wordpress. According to my error_log for Apache2, it was causing errors:

# tail /var/log/apache2/error_log
“[Wed Dec 09 11:41:18 2009] [error] [client 10.1.1.23] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/blogz/public_html/wp-content/themes/book-love-10/functions.php on line 28″

I went into the blog list, found the users blogs and clicked Edit. I removed book-love and Book Love entries, causing it to use the default theme, and Wordpress was then able to upgrade the site past these blogs.

–Brad Brown

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