Upgrading Drupal

I posted this in Post Install ( http://drupal.org/node/209950 ), but no one replied, so I'll try here since it has to do with upgrading to 5.6
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How exactly do I turn off Register_Globals?

Do I just put the PHP.ini in my domain's public_html with it set to 'off'?

That's a local "turn off" isn't it? Where do I get the php.ini to begin with in order to change Register_Globals to "off"?

Can I do a global 'turn off"? Does a global "turn off" affect the whole server, or just my reseller sub-accounts?

First of all I'm not sure what version of drupal is running. Is there some way to find this out?

I have inherited a drupal site set up on cpanelx. The host isp has in the last day or so upgrade PHP to version 5.2.5

Prior to that our website mensa.org.au was functioning properly.

Now it shows the following when displayed

{head} {styles}
{_BLOCK_.header.logo} {_BLOCK_.header.site_name} {_BLOCK_.header.site_slogan}
{secondary_links}
{primary_links}
{_BLOCK_.header.search_box}
{_BLOCK_.header.blocks}
{_BLOCK_.node.title} {submitted}
{content}
{_BLOCK_.footer.message}

I have read the topic "CPanelX ‡ Drupal ??"

I have looked at the file settings.php in public_html/sites/default contains

$db_url = 'mysql://aumensa_drpl2:*********@localhost/aumensa_drpl2';
$db_prefix = '';
$base_url = 'http://mensa.org.au';

and some lines

ini_set(.....)

every thing else seems to be comments or commented out.

This seems to be in line with the advice in that topic.

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If I go to mysql I see 2 existing databases, the one referenced above has the following info on the mysql Account maintenance page

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aumensa_drpl2

Users in drpl2
aumensa_drpl2 (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

Connection Strings

Hi guys... Love Drupal. Love it a lot. I am extremely amateur with all this stuff (couldn't write html let alone PhP - but can read and understand it now)...

I have a website up and running which I am very pleased with.

But I have two problems.

1) One is that when I use any of the upload modules (upload, image picker, file attachment, mediaAPI, mmedia etc) I can't seem to have any of my users allowed to use them (except upload of course) because the modeules do not appear in the permissions....?

I recently upgraded my Drupal 5.3 to 5.5 and it went swimmingly. I had a great side-effect , my access_log which were previously broken (as in they never filled up no matter what setting I set in admin just like these guys describe http://drupal.org/node/172162 ) now suddenly worked, and all was well in the land.

This morning I had a bit of a run in with ref spammers and after downloading the watchdog table I decided to empty it (and did so via phpmyadmin) because it had gotten to be quite large.

If I have a site that is version 5.2 can I upgrade directly to 5.6 or do I need to do the incremental upgrades.

Thanks

Hello,

This is sort of a spin-off of a post I started here: http://drupal.org/node/206576

The short and the long:
-I had a 4.7.x site
-exported the user table
-installed 5.5
-imported the user table
-users are are able to log in OK,
but...
it seems that some sort of "counter" has been reset and new accounts that get created are trying to over-write user 2, 3, 4, etc.
Know what I mean?