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By jag1500 on
I was upgrading drupal from drupal 6 to 7 and followed all the instructions. I have a backup of all the files from the server and the database. However after upgrade drupal 7 was not working, so I restored to drupal 6 by deleting everything from the root and replacing with files from the backup and restoring the database. However my site is still broken. My site is w3courses.com
I get the following error:
Warning: Unknown column 'throttle' in 'field list' query: SELECT name, filename, throttle FROM system WHERE type = 'module' AND status = 1 AND bootstrap = 1 ORDER BY weight ASC, filename ASC in /home/content/60/4994460/html/w3courses.com/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 128
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/60/4994460/html/w3courses.com/includes/database.mysql.inc:128) in /home/content/60/4994460/html/w3courses.com/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 726
Please help and let me know how I can restore. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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what version of Drupal 6 was in use when took the backup? are you sure the version you are replacing now, is the same version the database was running with?
Hi VM, thanks for replying. I
Hi VM, thanks for replying. I was using 6.21 i believe, I am using the same version to restore since I am using the same files I downloaded from the server. Do I need to create a fresh install to restore?
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no.
The only common threads I can find using "Warning: Unknown column 'throttle' in 'field list'" as keywords are related to Drupal 4. The only thing I can suggest is to continue digging through google results as reading through may strike a more significant chord with you.
As an aside, always test backups to ensure they are working before attempting anything with a production site. The backup process can fallible.
Thanks VM, is there a way for
Thanks VM, is there a way for me to do a fresh install and then import content from the backup of a database from my previous drupal site?
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not without significant database experience which I'm assuming you don't have else the question wouldn't have been answered. You could certainly move the content / users of a site running. I don't believe you have an easy fix here but I could also be wrong. D6 - D7 should have been done before the EOL of D6. Back when I moved sites from D6 to D7, I most often rebuilt of migrated content and users because of the complexity involved. The only sites that would be able to be performed with a standard upgrade path were sites that didn't employ any significant contrib modules.
Can I create a fresh drupal 7
Can I create a fresh drupal 7 install and use this migrate module to copy over content from the backup of the database? https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate
Is there any other module that might work?
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not without a working a D6 site.
Perhaps it would help to discuss what occurred when you updated to Drupal 7. 'was not working' is too vague.
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"Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent"
Because of the above, I'd replace core files in your backup. Be thoughtful in your approach. settings.php, .htaccess and those files that are important (contrib modules / themes etc) should not be removed/replaced/overwritten/deleted.
I'm thinking you've a corrupt file and due to the above and could be adding to the previous warning.
If the above don't work, I'd run update.php to insure that you didn't miss a database update along the way.
May also be worth trying to update the existing site to the last version of Drupal 6.