Upgrading Drupal

One of my websites suddenly started incorrectly displaying symbols such as coopyright or accents incorrectly I reviewed the discussion at http://drupal.org/node/142959 and it seems likely to me that the problem is that my drupal databse tables are still in latin1-swedish. I checked with the ISP and they maintain they have not made any upgrades to affect the MYSQL database although they are upgrading the cpanel. According to the ISP The site is using MYSQL 5.0
(mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.27, for pc-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.0)

Since drupal is what they call a "third party application" the ISP is in no hurry to help me fix this problem. From the discussion in the above thread i concluded that i need to change the tables to utf-8. I do not have shell access so i ahve been looking at the phpmyadmin interface to determin how to change the collation to utf-8.

I went to the operations tab, scrolled to bottom and see a drop down that appears to change the collation. I change to utf-8 but after the operation says it has succesfully completed the individual tables still list latin1 as the coding. The label at the bottom of all the tables does now read utf.

I upgraded a drupal site from Drupal 4.6 to 4.7 then to 5.2. The problem now is I can't give access to any of the content mainly to anonymous users, I've checked the access content under node module in user access settings. If I put the check in the administer content, the content displays fine but just check marking the access content the content is accessible only to admins. The 4.6 version used the node privacy by role module does it result to this kind of problem?

Please help fast.

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Geshan

What do you find works best for upgrading large portions of a live site? simply setting the site to offline and upgrading module(s) ?

Hi,

I would like to know what the best way is to upgrade a module.
Do you overwrite the module like an drupal system upgrade or did you uninstall the module and install the new one?
Has the module to be unloaded if you are using the first method??

Or is this depending on the module? And how can I find out???

Greetings,

Roi Danton

Hello. I am trying to migrate a phpbb2 forum to drupal.. I can configure the migration but when I am ready to do it and I start the migration I get this error:

Forbidden

http://127.0.0.1/drupal/%3Cem%3E/drupal/?q=admin/phpbb2drupal/migrate

I am running Drupal at localhost to check it before changing my whole site.

Hi everyone,

I upgraded my Druapl installation from 5.1 to 5.2. This was an error because I wanted to go to 5.3 but I missed the right folder ;)
So I copied the files to my site and run the database update. So I have a working 5.2 Version. Then I copied the 5.3 files to my site but I didn't need to run the update script. Is this right? Or did the system something wrong??

Thanks for you help!

Regards,

Roi Danton