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By sam452 on
I have a Drupal 6 app that I want to upgrade to 8.1.1 so I'm following the instructions at Drupal.org.
Drupal core 8.1.1, php 5.6.19, ubuntu 14.04
I first try drush using the latest version available (8.0.5) but the module is not found when I attempt to run drush migrate-upgrade. I gave up on it since there seems to be a problem.
So I download, enable the modules manually and attempt to use the graphical steps. I have a new Drupal database with this install so that I can run Drupal 8 to get this far. My database is on my OS X machine (to simulate an external mysql server in production) and Drupal 8, 6 is running on a Parallels ubuntu machine noted above.
After putting the drupal 8 site in maintenance mode and entering the database and path to my drupal 7 local files I get
0 available upgrade paths
0 missing upgrade paths
According to this page
https://www.drupal.org/node/2257723
It would seem that I have not entered my credentials correctly. Except I can mysql into my database using these credentials from ubuntu to OS X. And mis-entering the password in the /upgrade returns the mysql cannot connect error which suggests that the upgrade module CAN find my database.
The file path to my drupal 6 install is taken from my terminal so it is correct within context of Drupal 8 (ubuntu).
/media/psf/Home/apps/mydrupal6app
I've searched and do not see any others with this problem. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what the GUI module is needing here? thx, sam
Comments
Gave up, started over
Frustrated with this impasse, I upgraded to Drupal 8.1.2, trashed my drupal8 db and started again with the upgrade GUI. Used the same parameters for the interface and at least got more than 0 upgrade paths to be found, which were expected. tl:dr Start fresh and hope for the best.