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August 30, 2008
I'm choosing to laugh about this. Ok, not really.
Last night, I put on my big girl pants and prepared to reload MT on the server. First, I rebooted my laptop to make the annoying fan shut off.
Check!
Wait, my wireless connection is down. What the hell?? Reboot. Yay! Wireless is back up.
Check!
Try to connect to web server. Try to connect to web server. Check three of the other sites I run off the same server. Well, hell. Why is it that when my site is down, my host's sales page is still loading fine? And the admin page.
I shut down and went to bed. My host is rarely down more than a few hours, if that.
Everyone went down for naps while I was making cupcakes for the new neighbors moving in. It's quiet, no one needs anything, and the web server is back up. Slightly chocolately big girl pants are on.
I changed the name of the MT folder as a backup, uploaded and unpacked MT 4.21 and configured it with the database information.
Holy crap! It worked! Except, uh, it looks exactly the same as it did before. Shouldn't my templates have been wiped out and returned to defaults?
I did a little digging, and it turns out the templates are saved in the database. I think. In any case, I'm not poking my ignorant fingers around in the database and taking a chance of losing any content.
All my angst was for nothing, I guess. I mean, not only were there no issues, but I could have skipped the whole 10 minute process and eaten more frosting. I guess I'll muck around the templates and make some more changes and see what happens. In the meantime, unless something more annoying than the server 500 error (the one where it still publishes, not the other one, that was a real PITA), I guess I'll leave the big stuff well enough alone.
Posted by me at August 30, 2008 3:47 PM
Comments
Glad it all worked so smoothly!
Posted by: anna at August 31, 2008 1:16 PM