Upgrade works ok now, thanks for your help.
I checked out the XAMPP page for the current versions of software;
Apache HTTPD 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1.12, PHP 5.0.4.
Since you suggested web server was main problem, installed matching apache version (upgrade from 1.3.30->2.0.54) and this fixed the problem ...

Did you try to make that /blog alias only poin tto "0.7.1" instead of "0.7.1/"? It seems that this is the error of the duplicate slash.
That takes care of the apache log warnings/errors, but with or without the corrected slashes, corrected alias, and with either browser, my upgrade still has ...

[Sat Jul 09 08:38:52 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: g:/apache/htdocs/serendipity/0.7.1//entries
[Sat Jul 09 08:44:38 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: g:/apache/htdocs/serendipity/0.7.1//serendipity_admin.css
[Sat Jul 09 08:45:00 2005] [error] [client 127 ...

Thanks for your help.

Can you create a "bug.php" file with some parse errors in it and see if your PHP errorlog gets filled?

when I pass args to phpinfo() I get errors in the logfile ok.

I'll restore to working db, change path slashing, and reconvert and post results.

I checked via phpinfo() where my loaded ini was, modifed that to set error_log
; - Show all errors
;
error_reporting = E_ALL
; error displaying on production web sites.
log_errors = On
; Log errors to specified file.
error_log = "G:\PHP\5.0.3\error.log"
touched the logfile into place, restarted ...

I think I have heard of this bug with some strange browser versions. Can you try with IE?


Doing the following steps in IE or FireFox 1.0.4 results in same error.
copy files over original working s9y distribution
browse to s9y page
upgrade notice
advance to upgrade page
advance to upgrade ...

Sorry, wasn't logged in.

Install is a windows install with apache 1.3.1 and php 5.03.