By Celine Bessa on
Hello,
I have been working on a website (Drupal 6), but I do not know how to delete a user spam and how to prevent its creation.
I now have 35 000 users to delete, but with Drupal 6 I can not delete it all at once and I have to do one by one.
Please help me find a solution to block the entry of these spam users. I already have the captcha to prevent entry but it doesn't work.
I have also tried to update the modules but I can not because it asks me for an adobe account that I doesn't have.
I hope someone can help me, any questions that you may have to help me solve the problem I'm here.
Thank you.
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Please edit your opening post and move it to the 'post installation' forum.Thanks.you do not have to delete users 1 by 1 in drupal 6. you can utilize the user overview in administer -> users and delete a page at a time or; investigate the views bulk operations module to perform the task in bulk.
Drupal wouldn't ask for an adobe account. You will need to be more verbose with explaining how you are trying to update.
When I utilize the user
When I utilize the user overview in administer -> users, I don't have the option delete a page at a time. I don't know why
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a page at a time by using the check boxes next to each username for the ~25 or so on that page followed by the delete task.
Thank you for your help but
Thank you for your help but the website is in portuguese and I really can't find the option that you speak.
I have almost 1000 bulk operations and I already tried the "delete", "erase", "delete users" but they don't delete anything.
May I upload a site made in
May I upload a site made in Drupal 6 to Drupal 7? It's possible to change this?
Different question
Is this the same question or a new one?
You can upgrade a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7, but it's something to plan and do carefully having taken a full backup of the folder and database.
You should read https://drupal.org/documentation/upgrade first.
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It's a different question. I
It's a different question.
I saw the page that you said but I'm not the first login user and I don't know where is:
"When upgrading to Drupal 6.x, alter in /sites/default/settings.php:
$update_free_access = TRUE; ".
I want to upgrade the site to Drupal 7.
But I don't know what I need to do first, if it's uploading from Drupal 6.10 to 6.28, and then upgrade to 7 or if I don't need to upload to 6.28 and I can pass from 6.10 to 7.
And I also need to do the backup.
Can you please explain to me how I should do all that.
(I just start to work with Drupal a few days ago and the guy who did the site didn't know what he was doing so it's a mess and I don't know how I can do all this without losing the information on the site or something like that.)
Thank you for your help.
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new questions deserve new threads.
I would update to the latest version of 6.x first in core and all modules first then move to 7.
Success of a D6 -> D7 upgrade is somewhat dependent on the complexity of the D6 site and whether or not the previous developer followed best practices. if the site is that much of a mess it may make sense to start over with Drupal 7.
Backup
That's definitely the first thing to do before you do anything else.
Even with sites that I've built myself and designed well, I run a core upgrade to 7.x at least twice (a dry-run, then the real thing). I usually hit unforeseen snags - usually in upgrading contributed modules - that mean I do several dry-runs until I've got it right. So backup is key.
What control panel does your hosting come with? You need to (a) compress your entire public_html directory (or wherever your files are) into a single .tar.gz (best) or .zip (if you have to) file, and store it somewhere other than in your webhosting space, and (b) use phpMyAdmin (or whatever database tool you have) to download a compressed backup of the database that powers your site. That's in the "export" tab of phpMyAdmin.
You then need to get #1 user access to Drupal. Without either being that user, or another user with full admin privileges, you will not be able to do a core upgrade.
As was said, you should get everything in 6.x up to date - core to 6.28, and contrib to the latest versions. Then upgrade to 7.x from there. You'd disable all contributed modules first, hook the database up to a Drupal 7 codebase, and run update.php. You can then install each contributed module (probably one at a time to begin with), and run update.php as you enable each one. But it all depends, as was just said, how much of a mess and whether all the modules have Drupal 7 equivalents.
It's quite doable, but not a task for the faint-hearted.
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Thank you. Can I do a backup
Thank you.
Can I do a backup with the backup and migrate modulo 6.x-2.7 of this link:
https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
even if the Drupal Core of my website is Drupal 6.10 and the Administration menu is 6.x-3.0-alpha3?
Yes
Those version numbers wouldn't cause you a problem.
That module only backs up your database; you'd still have to back up the file system.
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Two modules to try
The honeypot and spambot modules may help you with registration spam.
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