finding out what is causing dreaded “The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.” message

Question

while doing a drupal 6 to 7 upgrade I am getting the not so helpful message \"The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.\" everytime I go to certa

Answer 1

As gyozo mentioned if you are not able to log into the site, then it might be difficult to debug.

Then probably you could try

1. Log into database and run delete from watchdog;
2. Refresh the page
3. Then execute the database query select variables from watchdog;
4. Look out for the text near message