{"id":2680,"date":"2007-11-17T20:28:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/have-you-ever-upgraded-wordpress-wp-configphp\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:59:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:29:02","slug":"have-you-ever-upgraded-wordpress-wp-configphp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/have-you-ever-upgraded-wordpress-wp-configphp\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Upgrade WordPress wp-config.php?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever a new wordpress version is released, and we upgrade wordpress<\/a>, there is one file we never upgrade: wp-config.php<\/strong> which has the MySQL database details. Have you ever looked up how this file has changed over the year? Have you ever upgraded wp-config.php?<\/p>\n

wp-config.php is a very important file that defines the WordPress configuration settings required to access your MySQL database. The new wordpress download always provides a wp-config-sample.php<\/strong> so that you do not overwrite the precious wp-config.php file by mistake and end up with MySQL database errors. New wordpress users need to fill in the MySQL database details<\/strong> and rename the file to make wordpress work. Though I keep my core wordpress and its plugins updated, I thought what if wp-config.php had undergone a change over these years and had a security hole accessible to hackers.<\/p>\n

My wp-config.php File<\/h3>\n

I realized I have never edited my wp-config.php since I moved from Blogger to WordPress<\/a>. Here is what my code looks like since WordPress 1.5 a year and a half back (PHP Comments removed)<\/p>\n

<?php\r\ndefine('WP_CACHE', true);\r\ndefine('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere');\r\ndefine('DB_USER', 'usernamehere');\r\ndefine('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere');\r\ndefine('DB_HOST', 'localhost');\r\n$table_prefix  = 'wp_';\r\ndefine ('WPLANG', '');\r\n$server = DB_HOST;\r\n$loginsql = DB_USER;\r\n$passsql = DB_PASSWORD;\r\n$base = DB_NAME;\r\ndefine('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'\/');\r\nrequire_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');\r\n?><\/code><\/pre>\n
Latest wp-config.php<\/h3>\n
Here is what the code in the latest wordpress version 2.3.1 looks like<\/p>\n
<?php\r\ndefine('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere');\r\ndefine('DB_USER', 'usernamehere');\r\ndefine('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere');\r\ndefine('DB_HOST', 'localhost');\r\ndefine('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');\r\ndefine('DB_COLLATE', '');\r\n$table_prefix  = 'wp_';\r\ndefine ('WPLANG', '');\r\ndefine('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'\/');\r\nrequire_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');\r\n?><\/code><\/pre>\n
Changes in wp-config.php<\/h3>\n
As you notice, 2 new tags have been added<\/p>\n
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');\r\ndefine('DB_COLLATE', '');<\/code><\/pre>\n
And the following have been removed<\/p>\n
$server = DB_HOST;\r\n$loginsql = DB_USER;\r\n$passsql = DB_PASSWORD;\r\n$base = DB_NAME;<\/code><\/pre>\n
WP-Cache Manager added this as per comments (but I do not use WP-cache<\/a>). I do not why it is still persisting.<\/p>\n
define('WP_CACHE', true);<\/code><\/p>\n
Should you upgrade wp-config.php?<\/h3>\n
Since WordPress Version 2.2, DB_CHARSET<\/strong> was made available to allow designation of the database character set (e.g. tis620 for TIS620 Thai) to be used when defining the MySQL database tables. DB_COLLATE<\/strong> was made available to allow designation of the database collation (i.e. the sort order of the character set).<\/p>\n
I checked up more official information about editing wp-config.php<\/a>, and was lucky I did not upgrade<\/span> <\/strong>my wp-config.php as they give a warning that if DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE do not exist in your wp-config.php file, you should NOT add either definition to your wp-config.php file unless you read and understand Converting Database Character Sets<\/a>.<\/p>\n
After that advice, it seems best to not upgrade my wp-config and let it stay as it is. At least it is working well right now, and not much has changed anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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