I decided to upgrade from 6.4 to 6.5. I followed all of the steps in the guide very carefully and everything worked absolutely fine. The site was working and I was able to put it online without any problems. That was UNTIL the post-installation step where it said to move/delete...
install.php
CHANGELOG.txt
INSTALL.txt
INSTALL.mysql.txt
INSTALL.pgsql.txt
LICENSE.txt
MAINTAINERS.txt
UPGRADE.txt
I deleted those files and the site dies. Now the site is down and I get this ghastly message...
"500 Error - Internal Server Error
This error was caused due to an unexpected difficulty in fulfilling the user request. The most likely cause of this error is a crashed or error'd CGI script or program. Please verify that the program is properly compiled and/or operational and carry out any necessary debugging."
Luckily this was only a test site that I have been using to practice using Drupal before I go live with the one for my new company but I'd like to make sure that a failure like this doesn't happen when I go live.
Any ideas?
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Well eventually I contacted
Well eventually I contacted my ISP who rather sheepishly admitted that he probably knew exactly how to fix this problem as they had just done some sort of upgrade to the PHP software. He went off for a while and I watched while he deleted all the files and put them back again and bingo! The site started working again EXCEPT that for some reason clean URLs wasn't working and after messing around with /q=admin/etc. etc. Drupal said that "Your system configuration does not currently support this feature." Strange - it did before!
Another little problem to sort out that will probably take a day!