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I need to upgrade an old Drupal 6 to the latest releases. The only way I found is changing the PHP engine version to work with every version (6 and 9 or 10) to export data via RSS (using PHP 7 for instance to export data from old 6 version, then PHP 8 to import them in a recent release).
Drupal has an excellent RSS generator that allows me to export post, categories and tags in a very efficient way, and then import the data generated into another Drupal version, more recent. The problem I got is that the RSS feed can have max 30 post.
successfully migrated d6 to a new server and everything works perfect except the photos do not show up. they are in the files folder with a name like 1 12 33.jpg but drupal is looking for src="/sites/default/files/1%12%33.jpg
should clean urls have been turned off before migrating? thanks
I know - it is not advisable to run such old version of Drupal as 6.x (and even 7.x for that matter) for so many reasons, most important of which are security.
But for those who have no choice for whatever reason, here is a very easy and quick way to make everything work.
(not sure about if you have some different custom, non-Drupal core modules, of course).
After my hosting provider forcefully upgraded PHP to at least 7.4, my Drupal 6.33 sites stopped working (blank page).
I am working at a place using Drupal CMS and in their Infinite wisdom, they decided to disable (remove) the "view source" button in the WYSIWYG input window for their content. But Now they'r realizing that when things shows upas "&" and non-breaking-space or there's a missed tag and a hyperlink runs on for a whole paragraph, they're unable to see it and edit it, because they can't view the source.