This morning I attempted to put this site online at a GoDaddy address. It all worked perfectly, except for the parts that didn’t.

I was able to export the database from the local site, but I simple could not find a way of importing the database into the MySQL databse at GoDaddy. Eventually I found an entry in the Help database, but it was out-of-date and didn’t refer to the version of phpMyAdmin that they are currently using. For odd reasons I wasn’t able to get a phone line to the USA from the Arcada switchboard, so I gritted my teeth and picked up my mobile phone.

After a lengthy chat with Ryan, that almost certainly tripled my monthly phone bill, I found the cunningly concealed secret panel and I was able to import data.

That was the point when we were due to begin our team meeting, planning for the start of term. Therefore the site was due to go live about two hours late.

But did it? No, it didn’t. The solution Ryan suggested was, in fact, merely the front door to the Hall of Errors. Importing the data file in the end involved stripping the SQL from the exported file and rewriting it for the older version of MySQL that GoDaddy apparently uses.

It is now 15.13 and I am writing this live into the online blog. Yabba dabba doo, I say.