Updates on the Updates

So ten hours later, I’m only half-way through the process of updating the software. I have successfully updated to from MovableType 3.34 to 4.33, but was unable to make 5.01 work, for reasons that are entirely unknown to me. According to their knowledge base, the errors I was having do not exist. After spending a couple hours bumping my head against that particular brick wall, I decided to give up on 5.01, and revert to the 4.33 upgrade I’d made earlier in the evening. The result was close to three hours of downtime as I tried to figure out why Firefox was giving me 404 errors for files that were clearly on the server. Because I’d been at it for far too long, I was too tired and burnt out to realize the obvious, that the permissions had gotten messed up. A four-second fix turned into a three-hour nightmare. This is the part where I take a bow.

Long story short, no data was lost, vestige.org was down for a few hours, and I have a better system running the back end than I had before, though not quite as good as what I was hoping for. If I can find the time tomorrow, I’m going to do some upgrades to the CSS (don’t worry, that I know how to do without screwing it up), and maybe also install some plugins to make commenting less of a pain in the ass. It will also keep legitimate comments from being automatically funneled into the junk folder, which is a problem I’ve been having for the last six or eight months; this blog has never been one to generate lots of conversation, but I know for a fact that several comments have been lost to that problem.

It’s eight in the morning, and I’m finally going to bed.

August

Writer. Editor. Critic.

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