Upgrade.php in Drupal 4.7 RC1 returns blank page?

By rentex on 31 Mar 2006 at 13:06 UTC

Has the upgrading procedure changed in the latest version of 4.7?

I'm trying to upgrade 4.7b5 to 4.7 RC1, but when I go too www.the-website-I-want-to-upgrade.com/update.php I only see a blank page (as I was not logged in the DB as UID 1 I turned off the access control check within the update.php file). I've upgraded several Drupal-portals before with success, so I know all about the traditional upgrading-procedure.

I'd appreciate any response!

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StevenPatz

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commented 31 March 2006 at 16:22

what does your error log say?

increase your memory

paddy_deburca commented 31 March 2006 at 17:35

add the following to your settings.php file

ini_set('memory_limit',             '16M');

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Thank you, but

rentex commented 6 April 2006 at 11:40

I really appreciate the fast reply!

The file in question is update.php not upgrade.php (sorry about this, I'd really like to be able to change the title in my first post and correct it as this could cause many a misunderstanding).

I added the line to settings.php as you said:
If I try going to the frontpage the only thing I see is the following

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /var/www/html/my-drupal-website/includes/common.inc on line 1036

If I try going with the browser to update.php, the browser returns a blank page.

I heard that the updating procedure has changed in the RC version, maybe this explains something (hows the update procedure now {any link to updated documentation, I couldnt find any bundled}?)

As I don't have any Drupal GUI available right now for that particular webportal, I looked into the watchdog table in PHPMyAdmin and found no errors there.

Different error message in 47RC2

rentex commented 14 April 2006 at 17:10

I tried to upgrade to Drupal 4.7 RC2 instead, but when going to update.php in the browser , I get a totallly blank page.
If I try going to the frontpage, I get the following error-message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting '&' or T_VARIABLE or T_CONST in /var/www/html/my_drupal_47_RC2_folder/includes/common.inc on line 1039

Great if anybody could suggest anything.