I heard back from both the B2Evolution forums and also from my webhost.
Someone at B2E looked at the error message and sent me a suggested hack
to the install script. That advanced the install a short way forward
but it crashed later on.
My webhost will restore the SQL backup for free. However, they said that
it "looks like" the updated version of b2e is not comparable with "some
server settings" so their recommendation is to restore the old database
and old version of the blog and roll with that. I have asked them if
they could be a little more specific.
They said that nothing on the server had changed recently, so the
question remains as to why the blog stopped working. In digging through
the B2E forums I found a couple of others who had the same problem that
I had with their blogs and the one person who posted on the resolution
ascribed the issue to a change in settings in Apache.
I may restore the old database and blog software and either move to a
new host or try an incremental update. I'd like to hear back from the
B2E since they seem pretty responsive.
Mark
On 10/2/2014 12:14 AM, David Mann wrote:
My advice with backups is to never trust a hosting provider to do them
for you, even if you're paying for it. Also restoring files can be
expensive. A company I used to work for found that out; after that we
set up our own remote backup system which proved quite useful in the
long run. Attila's advice about the upgrade is good, maybe you can
upgrade incrementally provided you can get hold of the intermediate
versions. I've been involved in difficult upgrades like that before -
all I can say is "good luck" :) Cheers, Dave
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