Movable Type 3.2 Burned Us.
Simple installation: Once the application is on your web server, installing or upgrading the system is as simple as a few clicks.
Ha! Earlier today I succumbed to the shiny website and long feature list of Movable Type 3.2, so against the nagging of the little guy in my head that never wants to upgrade anything that is working fine, I decided to go for it. I should have listened to him.
Here’s the quick version: I uploaded the files, I ran the “check” program (I passed). I then ran the install and I got a nice little paragraph of Perl errors. I checked the permissions…I ran to their support site…neither helped. Thank god I did a backup, right? Well I managed to chose the very day when the “restore a home directory backup” feature at my webhost didn’t want to work. Long story short(er than it could be), I finally did the restore by hand and I think we are back to normal.
The moral of this story? Listen to the little “don’t upgrade” guy in your head more often.