Drupal 6.x

Don't panic, don't want to stop using Drupal.

I've got an "old" Drupal6 site that needs a complete make-over, and has a lot of legacy: not correctly uninstalled modules, files in protected directories I can't remove, some small bugs, wrong theme, et cetera. The association that owns the site will change it's style and structure, so the style and content of the website needs to be changed completely too.
I want to uninstall the Drupal 6 version and to install a new Drupal 7 version.

Hi all, Looking to get some information as to start up my Localhost install. I've got a site that is 100% running and I've been tasked with taking over maintenance for it. The person who developed it is has retired and is no longer in the capacity to work with us.

To start with I'd like to run the site in a localhost environment for a while and start doing updates there before I do the live version. The site is running 6.x and I need to get it to 6.y. I've been doing a LOT of reading but am still confused about one thing. How to I get a localhost environment to run the “same” version of SQL/PHP that my server/website is running? And is this even important? Am I over thinking this part of it? All of the localhost install packages I've installed are different than what we are running. Also what is the best localhost package to run? I see there is XAMPP, WAMPP, LAMP, etc. I primarily run windows however would be willing to do this on a Linux box if that was “best” (although there might be more of a learning curve.

Here is what our site is running:

From our site Drupal status pages:
MySQL database = 5.0.91
PHP = 5.2.17

From Website host control panel:
MySQL database = 5.0.91-log
PHP = 5.3.13 -----Why are these different versions????

I am looking for advice on managing large numbers of image files uploaded by users.

I have a site with over 3k users who can upload up to 4 image files to be used in their (node) profiles. These are only ever displayed at smaller sizes via imagecache or image module but Drupal stores the original files unaltered.

We're having a repetitive issue with relative links on our site pages. Over time, relative links on pages begin leaving our domain. The links html stays the same, but the root domain of the links is no longer our domain, but goes to a number of other domains instead. They don't have our content, so naturally, the links fail and users can't get to what they're after. I've only seen it happen with relative links to non-html pages -- mostly links to pdf documentation. We can temporarily fix the problem by clearing the cache.
Ideas on what could be causing the problem?

My google map api v3 is working right on Sandbox but is not working on a hosted account
Sandbox 136.145.249.39/drupal

www.trespalmas.com/drupal

Hi everyone,

I run a fairly popular forum on Drupal 6 + advanced_forum module. I currently have a little over 20,000 nodes and closing in on 500,000 comments. I'm not using the nodecomment module and I'd prefer to avoid it.