A New Face

My personal site, and my blog were the last couple of things I needed to shift off my servers I run at home. I’ve since bought some colo space for a load of my stuff, but had neglected to actually sort my own stuff off.

This weekend I actually got around to doing it. First was to move the MySQL from a 2003 Windows server, to a Linux server (Fedora). That was pretty straight forward, but some how managed to corrupt my wordpress blog. Not a huge problem as had exported it using it’s own migration function.

The next was to get IIS to play with PHP. I remember the original setup was a nightmare, it just never seems to work… tried the installation package, what a fool. That managed to kill of IIS. So then un-installed that, and went for the manual approach. A few registry entries, and a few ini files later, and we were rocking.  Well after convincing it, that it did have the MySQL dlls.

Decided to give it a bit of a face lift, but as I am totally shite at any graphical stuff, I have got hold of a free template, took out a load of the woffle in it, i.e. the users ability to change the background image. Will migrate the rest of the site over soon enough, but have convert a few scripts from ASP to PHP, and oh I hate php

At least the site should be a bit more stable..