A week or two after I have updated the site (drupal) from 4-point-something to 6.4 I got a message from the drupal.org that they have fixed some bugs in 6.4 and have released 6.5.

Ok, so that is something I consider a minor upgrade. Since my own website also uses drupal I decided to upgrade that one first. That went without a hitch. Now Allacrost self. Being a good IT specialist I backup the database but since I assumed there wouldn't be any problems with this installation as well, I decided to go for it and just ignore the backup of the site itself.

Using the same procedure (copy the files to another location) I do the same and there I hit problem number one. I couldn't replace certain files. Even though the file said it had all the rights (read, write and execute on every level) I still couldn't replace. When MindFlayer pointed out if I had the rights on the directory I suddenly understood what had gone wrong. Problem solved, or so I think...

When I try to run the update I suddenly get an error of which I have no idea where it came from. When I try to restart the installation I was stuck again. I try everything I can but the only result were more problems. I then finally decide to let it go and look at it tomorrow (being pissed however I was more thinking in the terms "either the site goes or I go").

But now it is the next day, I have completely reinstalled the website, following the same procedure as I did on my own website and now everything seems to work again. I didn’t get any warnings this time however I still feel a bit reserved as so far I haven’t had much with the Allacrost server but I hope that this will be the last time this happens.

Now I will be smart and backup the entire site and entire database, one more time, so that in the event something does go wrong I can just revert the entire website.

PS: Sorry for the extend downtime

- ElonNarai