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WordPress 4.2 adds utf8mb4 collation to MYSQL servers that support it when it runs update.php. It's very likely that your development machine is running the latest MYSQL version and you'll need to revert back to the DB collation that you had before 4.2 to support older verisons of MYSQL when doing a database migration. If you have WordPress inst…
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#!/bin/bash | |
DB_NAME="wordpress_test" | |
DB_USER_NAME="external" | |
DB_PASSWORD="external" | |
DB_HOST="vvv.dev" | |
DB_PORT="3306" | |
( | |
echo "ALTER DATABASE ${DB_NAME} CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;" | |
mysql --user=$DB_USER_NAME \ | |
--password=$DB_PASSWORD \ | |
--host=$DB_HOST \ | |
--port=$DB_PORT \ | |
--batch \ | |
--skip-column-names \ | |
-e "SHOW TABLES" \ | |
--database=$DB_NAME | | |
xargs -I%TABLE_NAME% \ | |
echo "ALTER TABLE %TABLE_NAME% CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;" | |
) | | |
mysql --user=$DB_USER_NAME \ | |
--password=$DB_PASSWORD \ | |
--host=$DB_HOST \ | |
--port=$DB_PORT \ | |
--database=$DB_NAME |
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just download the Gist, make the file executable using
chmod ug+x ./utf8mb4_to_utf8
, update the variables onlines 3-7
, and run the script in the terminal./utf8mb4_to_utf8
.