Digital Adventures of Cyril Pauya

Here are the steps I did to successfully install Agilo for Scrum (open-source version) in my Trac site at Webfaction.com:
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We got disconnected from our ISP today, NDMC now has no Internet connection.

We have been with DCTech (old ISP) for more than 4 years and since they cannot fulfill our need for an upgrade from a 1.5Mbps to 4Mbps connection we decided it’s time to look for another ISP.  We signed-up with Globe INNOVE last June 2009 but are still waiting to be connected this month.  DCTech was generous enough to allow us a one month extension last August 2009 but did not approve our second request for an extension.

We had 8 public static IP addresses with DCTech and we used all of them to host servers for the following:

• school website
• email server
• applications server
• proxy server
• perimeter firewall
• internet gateway for offices

All major offices of the school are using e-mail and the Internet for research.  With my estimate, it would take around 2 weeks or more before Globe connects us.  Since we will be disconnected this month, I decided to move the three important servers on my Webfaction account so that we will have a minimal downtime.

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Today I decided to do some maintenance tasks on this site which is a WordPress blog hosted on Webfaction.com.

Here are the steps how to change the MySQL database password of WordPress in Webfaction.com:

1. Login to your Webfaction control panel.
2. Goto Databases->Change database password.
3. Select the MySQL database from the database list.
4. Type in the new MySQL database password
5. Click the Change button

However, you also need to tell WordPress to use the new MySQL database password or you will get this nasty error when you try to access your WordPress site:

“Error establishing a database connection”

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