Upgrading Drupal

Hi,

I've got 5.3 and I don't want to upgrade now because I don't have the time right now or somewhere to test first.

I would, however, like to avoid this security risk and apply the 5.3 patch (toward the bottom of the page): http://drupal.org/node/198162

I know what all the plus and minus signs mean in the patch file, that you should remove the lines with the "-" and insert the lines with the "+."

Well, this has been horrible!

I recently upgraded to a new server, and now everything has exploded... body parts lying everywhere... you get the idea!

First, my website couldn't find any includes, and I was getting "failed to open stream" errors.

I remedied this by adding ini_set("include_path","."); to bootstrap.ini. I read about this somewhere in the forums, but I can't locate the specific page at the moment.

Now my site text would load, but no links worked, because Drupal was inserting "cgi-sys" into every url. I fixed this by explicitly setting $url_base in settings.php.

OK, my site is up and running... but couldn't this have been done automatically? I mean, for every site that I host (several at this point), I am having to go in and hack a core file, and set $db_url.

Next issue: I wanted to try out D6 to help with development, using a subdomain. Once again, I got "failed to open stream" errors immediately. So, I edited bootstrap.ini, and tried again. That part worked, but then it started inserting "cgi-sys" into the install url, re-directing me to "example.com/cgi-sys/install.php", which results in an infinite loop.

As it is, I don't know how to remedy this (no settings.php to edit, yet), so I can't install D6.

I'm trying to move from 4.x to 5.5, following the instructions to the letter. Unfortunately, when I run update.php and tell it to upgrade the database, I get a page full of errors:

http://zorin.org/share/temp/dropbox/DrupalUpgradeErrors.png

...and the site is terminally broken. I'm glad I saved a full backup of the site so I could quickly restore it! Does anyone know what could be causing these errors? I don't want to be stuck on 4.6 for all of eternity!

I've posted this as an issue, but haven't gotten any response. I really would like some help if anyone has any ideas....

We've had these problems since the 5.3-5.4-5.5 upgrade....

Users are reporting that sometimes they will get the "forbidden...you don't have access to..." page when they try to submit a comment or node or when they try to edit their story or comment.

how can i use this Title Ultra Water . in the web site name when i do it this way it works in the page header but in the page title it displays it as it is .

Since this problem started right after an upgrade, I thought this was the right forum to ask.

I inherited admin of a drupal site, running 4.7.4. A few days ago I tried to upgrade directly to 5.5, had a crash during upgrade, after several restore efforts have the site back as it was.

Except for a few odd things - when I create or edit a page, as user1, the links for "publishing options" "authoring information" are broken. the text is there, but the hyperlink isn't working.