You would have thought that I was getting a little tense the past few days. Actually, it was a kinda warm in the office, what with getting ready for class and a couple of webinars. It wasn’t the weather, more like the heat from working on problems that seem unresolvable. Getting ready to do some beta testing of new software.
That’s when the “oops” hit me. For what is needed to do the beta test, there would have to be some upgrade software on my web server. Then after finding that software, something else needed to be upgraded as well. Downloads completed and start the installation and configurations that had to be done.
Then failure struck!
Big time failure – guestbooks, counters and even this blog gave “Internal Server Error” messages. Great white “ERROR” screens greeted visitors. For a couple of days, the web server moved back and forth between old and new.
An email to the software engineer who wrote my version of Apache Web Server (read “open source”) got a response that he would take a look at it. He’s in Australia, and I’m sitting in not so sunny California. Sure enough, he found a little bug that was waiting to bite, only when someone like me had the right combination of things going on to make it fail.
My thanks to Paul for his work. Now, I just have to finish what I started. Sitting here thankful that my system isn’t running Win…. – who knows how long it would have taken to get rewritten.
Coming soon will be the new blog and lots of other things – (pictures maybe?)
