# How dumb have you felt recently?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-dumb-have-you-felt-recently/165669 "2005-10-13T00:49:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sinister\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sinister\_Shadow](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sinister_Shadow)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-dumb-have-you-felt-recently/165669/1 "2005-10-13T00:49:21Z")

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Earlier today I got a call from my workplace telling me there was an urgent problem with the website I created for them and clients were not able to view the information we have promised them access to.

My supervisor and resident database expert took a look at the MySQL databases on our webserver and came to the conclusion that my php code was playing up. Enter the past few hours…

11:30pm: Check work emails for problem rundown and client login information  
11:35pm: Start installing xampp and downloading website from webserver using Dreamweaver  
11:45pm: Realised that I used the wrong user/pwd combination and downloaded the development site instead of the live site so deleted and downloaded the live site  
11:55pm: Couldn’t get hold of .htaccess file through Dreamweaver because it was hidden so started to try other methods  
12:20am: After failing loads of other routes I decided to use FileZilla  
12:25am: Setup the users required in the databases for the website to function  
12:35am: Finally get .htaccess working but can’t get the site to work without an “Error 500” message  
12:50am: Remembered that apache isn’t setup with mod\_rewrite which the .htaccess file uses  
12:55am: Start logging in and out of different user accounts to figure out what’s gone wrong  
01:05am: php code looks great and no obvious errors… no un-obvious errors either  
01:10am: Check database… data is missing… important data for clients to gain access to their information is missing…  
01:20am: Check live copy of database… information is identical to the local copy (because the local copy was a dump of the live database)  
01:25am: Write and send email to supervisor about the seemingly fine databases he examined earlier.

I could have saved myself almost 2 hours of time if I had checked the database myself! :trout:

I think I’ll take solace from the fact that it is not entirely my fault, nope, it is 99.9% my fault for not double checking my supervisor’s work but it is still not completely my fault!