What a pain that was

I’ve had this site ready to deploy since Wednesday/Thursday last week, but have been unable to do so because of the issues I’ve been having with my server. Actually, the site itself has been done for a long time, but I wanted to touch up a few things, and never got around to it until last week. So, once I was back into the swing of things, I wanted to get it uploaded by the end of the day on Thursday. Being the good worker that I am, I tried to do it over lunch, and had no luck.

Initially, it worked. But I had my password wrong for the database, so it crashed out on me. I changed that, restarted my processes, refreshed the browser… nothing. It made it to the 120 second mark when FastCGI times out. I thought, ok, must be something going on with Dreamhost. I tried again later, still didn’t work. It’s now time to hit the forums/blogs/wiki’s and so on. I even emailed Dreamhost support about the issue (they didn’t help).

To make a long story short, I tried everything under the sun. I was surprised that I found at least 10 different solutions to the EXACT same problem I was having, the only difference was none of them worked for me. Eventually, I gave up on fixing it, and followed Chris’ path. Everything works, but don’t be surprised if something is a little screwy (although I’m not sure why it would be).