so last night I decided to finally upgrade my server to the latest ubuntu LTS (13.04) from 12.04 .I did a full backup of all my data last night and I found 30Gb of redundant phone backups that are now gone. This morning I bit the bullet and did the do-release-upgrade; everything went well… until I had to update some MySQL data bases because I forgot the root password for it. It took me an hour of dicking around to find it again and then I saw that apache2 was misbehaving after the upgrade. So I spent an hour dicking around with it it seems the newest version of apache2 doesn’t like the old config file so I said “fuck it purge that shit” and start with a fresh install once I got my sites basically configured I had to fix permission issues with the default config file. Fine did that then pages were “loading” but they just came out blank after another hour of trouble shooting I figured out that I was missing a module dependency for php5 and as soon as that was installed, everything worked. yay
moral of the story: no mater how smoothly an OS upgrade goes (even if you get a PEBKAC during it) something will go wrong somewhere when in doubt try turning it off and on again (or reinstalling).
