Upgrading Drupal

Hello,

in order to upgrade safely a 4.7.6 site to 5.0 I have replicated the whole mysql database, copied all the drupal directory to another folder (cp -r -p drupal drupal_new), modified settings.php in drupal_new to point to the replicated database, pointed apache to drupal_new.

When I point the browser at mysite.net, the home page appears OK. When I click on the login button I get the login form OK.

When I enter user name and password and click login , I get

Not Found

The requested URL /user/login was not found on this server.

The server log says:

File does not exist: /var/www/html/drupal_new/user, referer: http://mysite.net/?q=user/login

After that, I discovered that, while the home page displays OK, no link from it works.. If I, for example, click on a menu entry in the home page pointing to "http://mysite.net/taxonomy/term/1", I get

Not Found

The requested URL /taxonomy/term/1 was not found on this server

and in the apache log:

File does not exist: /var/www/html/drupal_new/taxonomy, referer: http://mysite.net/

Hi, I'm very new to Drupal and bravely attempted today's upgrade.

I deleted all my Drupal 5.1 files from the server, uploaded the 5.2 files, then uploaded my backup sites/all/modules, sites/all/themes and .htaccess files.

I went to run update.php and it redirects me to install.php -- which doesn't do anything.

I must have broken something, but I can't figure out what. I have checked that everything is uploaded. I have changed update.php to $access_check = FALSE; in case I had been logged out, but that didn't fix the problem.

Hey everyone, I'm just upgrading my sites from 5.1 to 5.2, and I just wanted to double check that its ok to copy over my modified garland 5.1 theme directory and all it contains to my upgraded 5.2 sites?

Copying theme directories is always ok security wise isn't it? I always totally remove and replace all the other drupal files/directories apart from my images and any altered themes...

Hi All,

Do I just over write the files? Anything more to it? Precautions I should take, things I should be concerned about?

I am new to drupal and we are about to start a pretty big project.

There are some features in Drupal 6 we need so we are using it (even tho that won't matter for my questions really). Drupal 6 will most likely be released long ago by the time we are done with our development.