patndoris TechnoGeek

To those of you who had problems with my blog today - my deepest apologies. I don’t know why when something works well, I still feel the need to try and fiddle with it. The result today was five hours of frantic hair pulling for me, and some annoyances to you.

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One would think I’d have learned from my massive undertaking last year, when I tried to do a major upgrade and a database conversion. It went horribly wrong, and I had to re-enter everything! But, a few months later, a small update came out, which I pulled off flawlessly. Today I noticed another small update (nothing major) just upload a few files. Yah! Right!

Result: Blog broken.

Fix: Re-upload previous files and revert to working version. Simple enough in theory?

Result: Nope!! Sort of fixed, but lots of awful errors and display problems. (Not to mention my inability to login to my admin area!!)

Next Fix: Learned that .php files don’t like blank spaces after the final ?>. Had to edit about 20 files to remove them, by fixing one at a time, re-FTP-ing each one individually, then testing for the next problem file. Display issues corrected after about 15 files, but comment posting problems persisted. Repeated process ad nauseam until errors seem to have resolved.

Final Result: I still have a nagging feeling more errors may crop up, since by no means did I have to edit every single .php file. But, I guess I’ll tackle them as they arise. At least I’ll know what to try to fix them.

Once again, my apologies to those who had issues with my site today. And thank you for the emails to let me know about the comment problem. Without those, I’d have probably not tested the comments and wouldn’t have managed to get back to a (semi)working state.