Upgrade went badly

[Peter Knight]

Hi guys
Just tried an upgrade from 2.4.0 to todays Dev branch and now have an error message. 
Whats the best way to diagnose? I can restore the old files but wondered if this was fixable?

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator at root@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

 

[ryan]

Sparrow, assuming you upgraded the .htaccess file with the PW version, I would start by renaming the .htaccess file to htaccess.txt and then try to reload the homepage. Is the internal server error gone? If so, then restore the .htaccess and start commenting stuff out to determine which htaccess rule is causing the issue. 

If that's not the issue, then next look at your PHP and MySQL versions: what versions are they?

You'll want to get more info on the error message. Start by editing /site/config.php and enabling $config->debug=true; on the line where it's currently turned off. Reload, do you see any more detail about the error?

Check /site/assets/logs/errors.txt, anything there?

Look for PHP's main error log to see what it has to say. On some servers this can be hard to find, so you may have to examine the phpinfo(); result to determine the location. 

[Peter Knight]

Cheers Ryan

I revisited the requirements page for the dev branch and noticed:

• PHP version 5.3.8 or newer.

Once I upgraded the hosts PHP version to 5.5, it worked. My oversight but thanks for chipping in.