We have just begun to evaluate drupal (and in particular OpenChurch) for a possible replacement for our website. Neither myself (network admin) nor the webmaster is very clued up on drupal yet. I installed beta 1 a couple of days ago and I updated to beta 2 today. Having done so, I see that the frontpage is now malformed (the map, meeting times and contact us panels on the bottom row have become a column). I would be grateful for any advice on what I did wrong!

I like to package all software I install into RPMs and so I have done the same with OpenChurch (the whole thing, including core in one package). Packaging details at http://hg.sgcm.org.uk/OpenChurch7/. Following the documentation, I put the website into Maintenance mode, used yum to upgrade the RPM, and update.php (which said there were no updates) and turned maintenance mode off.

You can see the site for yourself here: http://www.sgcm.org.uk/ (if you need an account to investigate, please let me know).

Many thanks,

Ali.

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j_ali CreditAttribution: j_ali commented

After advising our webmaster of the problem, she had this to say:

Thanks for the heads up! I just checked it out and it looks like it also reformatted the "skins" on the sidebar blocks. I tried to change them back and the option for changing their skins is no longer an option! another glitch??? Maybe if they get back with you about the first, you could ask about the second? or it may be related!

I'm getting out of my depth here, but I hope that helps!

Ali.

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Be sure to flush all of your caches after the upgrade, I wish update.php would do that automatically.

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Status: Active » Needs work

Also you should always do your upgrades on a test instance first, you never want to do an upgrade on a live site without testing. We have free platform upgrades on our http://openchurchsite.com hosting.

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j_ali CreditAttribution: j_ali commented

Thank you. I saw you say this before, but I understood you to meant the browser cache, which I have been carefully clearing :) I have now found the correct cache to clear and it all works.

This is an evaluation site rather than a live site. Should we go with drupal it will probably become the test site. I would need to look at hosting the live site in due course (the current live site runs on a virtual server which would need upgrading) and I promise to consider OpenChurch's hosting package!

Many thanks,

Ali.

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Status: Needs work » Fixed

ok good news then, I figured it might be an evaluation site. I get nervous when people upgrade their production sites without doing any testing. Thanks!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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