There it was, big as life – “CGExtensions Module missing – Install Now”. Nice message, but no way under the sun (or moon) to accomplish that task, because in admin, I suddenly lost the ability to install modules. Worse still was the fact that the Admin Page defaulted to the “non-GUI” and trying to find the right links on the page is difficult because of the CSS.
First thing to do was (since I had not done this before installing the “CG” stuff) was to backup the site directory (all 53 meg) and the database. BTW, restoring the old database (one month old) did not get me back to what that was. Somewhere, the module info stayed corrupted, so the restore database was not going to work. That means that some data was written to the site directory somewhere.
After several tries to install/add “CGExtensions” and “CGEcommerce”, I figured I’d try an upgrade to 1.8.2 from 1.8.1, rather than a full reinstall (which some had suggested). Got the 1.8.2 package, unzipped it and copied over all the files just as if an upgrade was going to happen.
That did not work, because the upgrade choked on “Module Missing” for the two culprits! Grrr!!!
Finally solved it, by installing the modules on another site and copying the modules to the offended directory, and then the upgrade worked.
OK, so probably should have tried the copy over trick before the upgrade, but nonetheless, that’s one less site that will have to be upgraded this week