Well, for those of you following the trials and travails of the website overall, you will be relieved to know that it is finally back online. I don’t know quite what I did to it (well, actually, I know roughly what I did but no one seems to know why it broke) but I’ll tell you this: backup, backup, backup.
I foolishly installed an admin patch (what was I thinking!?!) without backing up the other files overall. Supposedly the patch fixes a timeout issue with the content management system we use, so I just dropped the files in, and voila! I was locked out of the system and kept getting invalid sessions. I have no idea what finally fixed it – I tried backing out the fix, I tried reinstalling the entire set of files, I even upgraded the entire CMS. None of that worked.
I kept looking in the forums for help, came across a few ideas, and while I’m not sure what did the trick, the last thing I tried was resetting the security permissions. That seemed to do it, so now I’m putting the permissions back the way they were. Ugh.
Anyway, the site was completely offline for a while. What was both maddening and reassuring was that the photo gallery and the blogs were all still working; even though they are partially controlled by the CMS. I really am glad it’s back online and I will go and invest in some backup utilities.
If you visited and could not move around the site, sorry about that. I think we’re back now and the interesting part is that we have upgraded most of the site – as a result of my trying just about everything.
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