Your database appears to need patching to a higher level?
I don’t write too much about the technology side of the business, but operating on a shoestring budget requires self-
troubleshooting. The shopping cart system I use is called ‘Zen-Cart,” a free open source shopping cart that allows customers to order Aunt Erma’s Mandel Bread online. One of the features of my web host is that whenever Zen Cart upgrades their software, all I have to do is click a button and my site www.auntermas.com gets upgraded to the latest version of Zen Cart. But that’s where my trouble began last week. I was following a typical one click upgrade for Zen Cart through my web host when things went haywire. After the upgrade was completed, all of the information on auntermas.com defaulted back to the original sample text. So if you clicked on “Contact” what you would see is a piece of text that said “Sample text…etc. I had to manually go in to every page of my site and recreate the text, even re-link the mandel bread image. But still I had troubles. When I would go to auntermas.com I would get this message in a big red banner at the top of the page:
Your database appears to need patching to a higher level
I googled how to fix this error and got some really complicated techie explanations. Took about three days to figure it all out.
For you do it yourself Zen Cart folks, here’s how I fixed it.
Go to zencart and download zen cart to your desktop
In the downloaded zen cart folder you’ll find a folder called zc_install
Log in to your web host ( I use bluehost) and upload the zc_install folder to your site
In your web browser type in www.your web site.com/zc_install
Follow the instructions to upgrade your database
All fixed!
Don’t forget to back to your web host and delete the zc_install folder from your site or you’ll get a warning message.
