This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from July 2006 and lives here forevermore.

Software updates

I’ve upgraded this site from MT 3.2 to 3.31, the latest release. It was a mostly smooth experience, with the only issue being that my text filter for the entries wasn’t recognised. Once I had worked out the problem it was a simple matter to change the filename of the filter to begin with zz so that it was the last one dealt with. This information may come in useful to someone else at some point, hence my posting it here.

The other software issue I had to deal with came about when I installed a new rails site. After restarting the server I could only get an error from the site. I checked the usual problems; wrong path to the ruby executable, inaccessible log directory etc. and still couldn’t find the answer. Finally it clicked that I had the incorrect permissions on the tmp/ directory. Once I fixed that everything went smoothly. This information is mainly here for my future reference.