I am pulling my hair out! Help!
I have been tasked with upgrading our website from Drupal 5.3 to Drupal 7.23 (and the OS, PHP and PostgreSQL database) and I keep running into error after error! Each time I manage to get through 1 error, another one shows up! Part of me wonders if anybody else is having this much trouble upgrading considering how widely used Drupal is!?!
I am fairly new to Drupal and to FreeBSD so this has been a very steep learning curve and I am running out of ideas on what is wrong and how to fix it! Unfortunately patience is running thin with the powers-to-be and not to mention I am starting to get tired of this project since I have not been able to move forward for a while already!
I've managed to get up to Drupal 6.28, not including the custom theme or modules (I get to modify those next) and have a number of issues showing up as I try to upgrade to Drupal 7.23. I am running Drupal in a VM for now, but will be runnign this on an installed version.
- FreeBSD 9.1
- apache 2.2.23
- php 5.2.17 and extensions
- postgresql 9.0
I haven't updated PHP beyond 5.2 yet because I started with Drupal 5.3 and was hoping to move the entire site up to Drupal 7.23 before updating the OS and components. Unless this is the error causing all of my troubles.?!
My observations and actions: