Updating to 5.6 and my site is totally fragged now. Help!
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I was updating my site to the 5.6.0.1. I backed up my database. I went to the news page clicked the update. Took me to the download page for 5.6.0.1 clicked download. Once done downloading I clicked the provided update button. Once done the text said it was not installed however the backend looked like a different setup so it must have installed. I went to the site and it was messed up, almost everything was gone but not completely. So I ran a database restore. Now I can not access anything. All I get is this:
Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
HELP! HELP! HELP! I can't afford to have this site down.
Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0
HELP! HELP! HELP! I can't afford to have this site down.
Thanks for the reply. I tried that but got nothing. I had to have the host reset me by a day.
What worked for me was, doing what garioch7 wrote, and uploading version 5.5.2.1 again. So I did not have the new concrete5 version, but at least my website was healthy and accessible again.
"jjdb210" was kind enough to respond with a solution that worked for me:
"Did you manually update, or did you do it via the Dashboard?
If you did it via the dashboard, often times you can at least get your old site mostly function by removing/changing one line from your config/site.php file back to 5.5.2.1. The line reads like this:
define('DIRNAME_APP_UPDATED', 'concrete5.6.0.1');
If this is your first time upgrading via the dashboard, simply remove it. If this is your second or third time, then change it to:
define('DIRNAME_APP_UPDATED', 'concrete5.5.2.1');
But I'm not sure how you "attempted" to restore your backup.
You may also want to contact your webhost... Sometimes they have backups of your database or filesystem that can be easily restored to roll back to.
Hope it works for you too. Have a great day.
Regards,
-Phil