Upgrading Drupal

Hi everyone, I've got a quick question.

Upgrading to 6.1 seems to have caused weird file upload issues on my site, ( as reported by others here: http://drupal.org/node/226653), so I was wondering what's involved with going back from 6.1 to 6.0?

When I install new templates & modules in "sites --> all --> themes" (or modules) I don't see them via my admin panel (site building section). Is there something new in Drupal 6 where I should just install these in "public_html --> modules (or themes)"?

Hi,

I just upgrade my testing site from d5.2 to d5.7.

then i cannot create any node. after clicking sumit button, it always show me

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You are not authorized to view this page
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I tried to run an upgrade from version 5.X to 6.2 and the upgrade failed. If I go to http://www.myescapeonline.com/update.php nothing happens if I go to the site http://www.myescapeonline.com I get this error:

Warning: Unknown column 'serialized' in 'field list' query: SELECT data, created, headers, expire, serialized FROM cache WHERE cid = 'variables' in /mounted-storage/home85c/sub002/sc32473-LIXZ/myescapeonline.com/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 128

Warning: Unknown column 'serialized' in 'field list' query: UPDATE cache SET data = 'a:410:{s:13:\"filter_html_1\";i:1;s:18:\"node_options_forum\";a:1:{i:0;s:6:\"status\";}s:17:\"menu_primary_menu\";i:2;s:19:\"menu_secondary_menu\";i:2;s:19:\"ec_checkout_screens\";a:2:{i:0;s:7:\"ec_anon\";i:1;s:4:\"cart\";}s:14:\"ec_anon_policy\";s:1:\"1\";s:24:\"ec_mail_customer_invoice\";s:1:\"1\";s:24:\"ec_mail_processing_error\";s:1:\"2\";s:18:\"ec_mail_cancel_txn\";s:1:\"3\";s:20:\"ec_mail_ask_customer\";s:1:\"4\";s:15:\"install_profile\";s:10:\"openresort\";s:17:\"node_options_page\";a:1:{i:0;s:6:\"status\";}s:12:\"comment_page\";s:1:\"0\";s:18:\"securepages_enable\";i:1;s:23:\"business_nav_vocabulary\";i:1;s:29:\"ec_mail_customer_confirmation\ in /mounted-storage/home85c/sub002/sc32473-LIXZ/myescapeonline.com/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 128

Hello,

I would like to ask if there is a way of restricting access to particular uploaded files. In Drupal 5.x, this functionality was implemented by upload module which restricted access to a file depending on access rights to the page the file was associated with.

In Drupal 6.x the files are associated with users and the access control to files seems to been removed from upload module.

What I would like to do is to have some pages and files available for public and some pages and files available only for particular roles.

Thanks.

If you are a Drupal newbie like me and finally going to address that message about version 6.2 now available (Drupal 6.2 released, fixing security issues) then read on. Although I wanted the latest release to address any issues (especially security ones!), I started preparing by reading the forum related to upgrading and seeing things like "site trashed after attempting upgrade"... Ok maybe I can live with a few security issues in 6.1.... I just got started using Drupal a few months ago, got it set up great, have lots of folks visiting every day (a local community sports site) and don't want it to blow up...

na lets go for it!

Disclaimer: As mentioned, I am a drupal newbie and these instructions are NOT in any way "the official upgrade instructions" to go from 6.1 to 6.2, but it worked for me. You may also avoid some of the mistakes I made along the way....

1. First download 6.2 file and find something that will uncompress a .tar file. I originally moved it to a new folder on my host's server using cpanel and tried to execute it to uncompress, but didn't it didn't do anything. So, downloaded a program and uncompressed it on my PC.

2. Saw lots of comments in the forum about making sure you read and follow the instructions in UPGRADE.TXT. So I tried to follow them to the letter. I have listed them below, with my comments in curly brackets {}.

UPGRADING