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ERROR 144 at line 1 Table

ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ – WordPress MySQL

Received this error today ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1 Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ on one of my WordPress installations after trying to restart MySQL.  This is how I fixed it. This is the error I received when running # /etc/init.d/mysql restart Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.. # ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table ‘./wordpress/wp_options’ is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed It was showing one of my WordPress tables was corrupted. Don’t panic though, there is an easy way to resolve this. Run the following command myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/MyWordPress_db/wp_options replacing the pathname with your path name. If successful you should see the following. # myisamchk -r /var/lib/mysql/MyWordPress_db/wp_options – recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table ‘wp_options’ Data records: 253 – Fixing index 1 – Fixing index 2 Data records: 348 Restart MySQL again, you will see […]

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wordpress change domain names

WordPress change domain names

Well I thought it was time to change domain names hosting my blog WordPress site. Hello from davidhill.co and goodbye virtual-blog.com So why did I make this decision?  I certainly haven’t taken it lightly.  Moving Domain Names is challenging and requires a lot of thought and pre-planning.  However, I wanted to have a blog site that was more relevant to me personally, rather than just purely virtualisation.  My old domain name just didn’t fully reflect the content anymore.  I was able to purchase davidhill.co when they released the .co domains with the intention of switching.  Now I have finally bitten the bullet and gone ahead with the migration. WordPress Change Domain Names So what steps did I take? Well first off, I bought the domain name (yeah duh!!) Secondly I spent a number of hours researching what I had to do to manage my SEO. This is a really good […]

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How to get rid of URL ?doing_wp_cron=xxxxxxxx

So I noticed a few times on my blog that I was getting a URL return of http://www.davidhill.co/?doing_wp_cron=1352938402 While this doesn’t cause a problem, it doesn’t look professional, so I wondered what it was, and why was it appearing.  After some digging, I found a link to this page on the Wordpress support forums http://wordpress.org/support/topic/doing_wp_cron. It turns out that I enabled a feature as a work around for my scheduled backups on the recommendation of the plugin creator, and this was the consequence. What it doesn’t tell you is how to fix this problem. For me it is a really simple fix, as I host a Turnkey Linux WordPress appliance in a Virtacore vCloud, I simply enabled loopbacks on my host. For anyone who doesn’t understand the “WordPress” term “Loopback” it is the URL of your site being able to “loopback” locally on itself. My host configuration did not have this configured. A simple way of fixing this is […]

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