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*bounces* I got it, I got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok - here is the problem.  You had a .htaccess file in your system directory, it contained a mod_rewrite that was causing everything to look at your main index.php - so you were essentially visiting your site without running update.php and you couldn’t get to update.php with that mod_rewrite.

I backed up your .htaccess file to my hard-drive and nuked it out of your system directory.

You can now visit update.php and the page will load - I have not clicked the link to run the actual update, because I didn’t want to steal that joyful moment from you. *winks*

Go do it and tell me how it turns out.  Go go go go!

Oh, and by the way - how did I figure out it was the .htaccess? I uploaded license.txt to your system directory and tried to visit it and got that MySQL error - so I *knew* that your site was processing files it shouldn’t have been. =)

Ok, I C 😉

Let me try that update.php—pants—

Lisa, you have been a jewel about this.

Back in a flash,
Clive

Ok, I have to say here that Lisa has been the shining jewel here.  And I just got bunted from the Private Message system, having ‘sent more than I’m allowed in 24 hours’— hmm.

So I will just have to put the appreciation here.

She found the problem - a slightly ‘leftover’ .htaccess file I had put in the system folder.

...never in a million years…it was very hidden.

Once ‘nuked’, as she put it, I could update successfully, with no database errors.

This went very smoothly, but then the site had only white screen to show.  This is because I didn’t realize to remove the Pages things from our friend before upgrading.

Since upgrade is really simple, especially direct on a Unix system, I’m just going to put back the original site one more time from backups, _remove_ Pages from our nice friend, and then upgrade again.  That part will take about 5 minutes.

That’s what I’m doing, then.

Birds sing in the trees in the courtyard, or tweet anyway, as the light is here.

Thank you, Lisa.  Really appreciated, and the experience of your professionalism there.

Take care, and make up your own rest debt, please 😉

with nice thoughts, from Basel on the Rhine,
Clive

My pleasure, Clive.  Let us know how you go with the restore - but please, wait until (my?) morning.  I am going to catch up on that rest debt, as you put it. *grins*

😉

I will. 

Take care, Lisa,
Clive

Hi Lisa,

You asked me to wait on writing this up until it was your waking time at least the next day, and I have 😊. 

In fact, it’s taken two passes of the ‘hot tea under nose’ to get my own engine running to complete the fixups and upgrade, then make the text.  But it’s findable now where I said I would put it, under the original EECore community tech support: here.

For your great help here, you know you have my gratitude.

What will I do now?  Well, I am going to proceed with my fresh commercially licensed 1.6 site, as I like some things there, and the old upgraded EECore site can be a place to play.

I’m using export of templates, etc., to port across, and maybe through a Dreamweaver intermediary to help me get a final fix on css etc. without the time young kids have to throw at these things 😉.  Though I remember, and how it wasn’t different ‘then’.

I will try out your MT export and EE import to gain experience for future times. One more thing you’ve given the community, and I read some of the history of this and other proposals with interest.

How we can work together, that actually builds futures—our most attractive subject, may it be?

All the best, Lisa, and to those with you in the Expression Engine team.

Regards,
Clive