By winedude on

OK, I'm trying to upgrade from 6.14 to 6.15.

The site only had core files installation.

I took the working old site off line.

Cleared out the 6.14 files.

installed the 6.15 files sans the sites directory.

Inadvertently closed the drupal page that took the site offline.

upgrade.php says I have no permissions.

I tried to change the setting the the settings.php fiile, but it won't let me over write the new file......

How can I change the settings file so that it can be over written.
How do I change it back once I'm done?

Thanks for your time in advance

Jim Lamb

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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j_ten_man commented

Are you running on a linux machine and trying to edit the file?
What program are you using to edit the settings.php file?

I use vi on linux.

sudo vi settings.php

Edit the variable there that you need.

To write the file in vi you need to use w! to force the save.

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winedude commented

I'm administering a Linux hosted account on Siteground from a windows machine,.
I've tried to FTP the settings file, modifying it and FTP it back.

It fails when I try and FTP the file back.
It says I don't have permission to change or overwrite the file.

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j_ten_man commented

Can you not get back to the page to reenable the site (admin/settings/site-maintenance)? If not then you would have been in trouble anyways. What you want to do though is to login as user 1. I am not sure the username or password because you set those up when you created your site.

I am assuming clean urls is enabled with the urls I am giving.
Visit the login page (http://example.com/user). If you can't get there, try this: http://example.com/logout and then go to the login page. Once you are there, login with the main user and then you should be able to update your site and navigate around in the user interface. If you can't logout, clear your browser cookies and that should do it.

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winedude commented

all iterations say;
Site off-line
Real Estate Depot is currently under maintenance. We should be back shortly. Thank you for your patience.

http://www.realestatedepot.biz/drupal/logout

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j_ten_man commented

When I visit http://www.realestatedepot.biz/drupal I get the install script for Drupal...

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winedude commented

I opted to do a fresh install of Drupal.
It works now, but I'm not sure why it didn't work moving on.

thanks everyone