With the accessibility issues sorted out, I could return to my work without any hindrance. I continued to flesh out the “James” section in preparation for the main content. Of course things had to be going too smoothly for me because as the evening’s winding down, I get a notice that a new version of Drupal’s out and I need to update. Now, we can’t have it be a simple single click to update like in WordPress. Oh, heavens me, no. You’ve got to strip out a decent chunk of your files, then upload the new ones. I have the distinct feeling it would’ve been faster to delete the old files in CPanel’s File Manager rather than my FTP client, but I did the latter and so that was going to take the rest of the night. Joy.

One of my concerns is that the htaccess file was set to resolve the issues of the past couple days and now I have to replace it. I of course saved a copy of the old version, but I need to go through the code and see what’s changed with the new version so I don’t screw up anything there. Hopefully I can get it all working without too much trouble as Drupal seems to update rather regularly. It may not have been great for security, but I liked having gone all those years with Wolf CMS without updating anything. Well, such is the price we pay to stay on the cutting edge. If there aren’t any major issues getting things up and running again, I should be able to resume work without too many headaches. Will it work out that well? If recent history is any indication, no, but I’d welcome a pleasant surprise for a change. Stay tuned.

No Comments

No comments yet.

Deprecated: Function comments_rss_link is deprecated since version 2.5.0! Use post_comments_feed_link() instead. in /home1/jcarmack/public_html/blog/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment