Oh boy this is a mess ... I'm going to have to build a totally fresh environment ... All the hacks I tried have failed.

k00b

Turns out when I upgraded my database a few weeks ago, the aws service I was using didn't update it's config - they're out of sync and no upgrades can be performed. 

I'm going to try to decouple the database from the environment and try to not take down the site again.

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saloon

AWS attempted to update my database's minor version but it failed. 

This should've been fine (it just should've rolled back and kept trucking), but I have a custom nginx config and whenever there's a configuration change without code being deployed, aws fails to apply the nginx config and nginx doesn't start.

All I had to do was ssh into the machines and start nginx.

What I'll be working on today:
1. figuring out why the database couldn't update
2. how to avoid this nginx issue (it was just an inconvenience before ... never took the site down)