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.\u00a0 This morning\u00a0 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”\u00a0 and start with a fresh install once I got my sites basically configured\u00a0 I had to fix permission issues with the default config file. Fine did that then pages were “loading” but they just came out blank\u00a0 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<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 (or reinstalling).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.\u00a0 This morning\u00a0 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”\u00a0 and start with a fresh install once I got my sites basically configured\u00a0 I had to fix permission issues with the default config file. Fine did that then pages were “loading” but they just came out blank\u00a0 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\u00a0 (or reinstalling).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/killernat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}