Wordpress fun with amateur admins >.<

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Wordpress fun with amateur admins >.<

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I have a customer which pays me on an hourly rate for giving her support with her Wordpress site....the "tech people" she worked together yet are very unreliable, and now I had the hilarious opportunity to experience that they are also highly IT illiterate.

a day ago she (the customer) asked me if we can move everything (domain and site) to me, and because I was quite sure it'll be a pain in the rear to get database- and ftp-access from the "server admin" I decided to try some Wordpress plugins (I have backend access to her site) which are supposed to create site backups.

it took a while to find one that worked with the strange server config (time-outs everywhere, even when downloading the backup file, direct ftp transfer to my server worked then for some odd reason), and during the process of testing plugins I also tried one that acts like a web ftp client. not knowing what the full path to the site is I simply entered / as path, assuming it'll default me to the vhost root then.....but it didn't:

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yes, full root access, read/write/everything....priceless... :lol:
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#-o
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tones of servers were pwnd for such reasons ( an illiterate IT team ) :-99
and as they say : human stupidity has no patch :p

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