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Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Server Saga Continues

So I woke up this morning, checked the site and it loaded fine. Yay.

A few hours later, being as paranoid as I am, I checked again...

500 Internal Server Error

WHAT!!!

Usually, an internal server error occurs if there's some misconfiguration between the code and the database. I've accidentally done this in the past - it's amazing what a misplaced semi-colon can accomplish.

BUT! I haven't touched the site, or any of our other sites, since yesterday, and definitely not since the morning check when everything was A-OK, so what gives? It had to be related to the server being down last night, which we learned had to do with an Apache upgrade to the server software. Well obviously, something went wrong with the software.

After another bought of panicking and frustration, I found this message posted from our web host:

Hello, We are working to correct a misconfiguration in the cpanel config files, which caused MySQL issues on your server. Currently, both MySQL and Apache are being reconfigured on the server. Once your server is updated and the issue resolved, we will post a Network status update to indicate this has happened. You may check the current status for this server at any time in CAP via https://account.lunarpages.com/ with your cPanel username and password, then by clicking the Network Status icon. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any issues with your site, please contact support@lunarpages.com Lunarpages System Admin Team

Just great. No ETA. Is this going to be a 5 minute thing? An all day thing? The waiting continues.


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