Upgrading Drupal

I was trying to upgrade my 4.7.4 site to 5.0 RC1, and while running upgrade.php it directs me to the normal database upgrade page, however the version selection box (field) is missing. See screenshot here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drupalchina/338149147/
(notice the version select drop box is missing)

Upgrading from 4.7.2 to 4.7.5 was nearly errorless, but - at the end - the home page of a subsite shows the main site. I checked .htaccess, the settings in the sites folder and the database: nothing has changed from the backup.

Someone any idea?

Upgrading from 4.6 to 4.7, I have discovered a problem with "special" characters such as right and left apostrophes for example. On searching the forums, I doscover that this seems to be a known problem: see here and here and here.

There seem to be several proposed ways of dealing with the problem:

Hi,

I'm upgrading a French drupal site from 4.6.3 to 4.7.4 with Mysql 4.1.20-standard, phpMyAdmin - 2.9.0.2.

I'm aware there are some issues with how the character sets are handled between versions, and it looks like I need to convert the DEFAULT CHARSET and COLLATION settings in the database to avoid problems with how accented characters are displayed. My question is, when is it best to do the conversion: before upgrading to 4.7 or after?

Thanks,

M.

Hi there.

First, forgive me if this is too wordy, but I want to make sure the relevant info is out there... my main problem is written in bold below... the stuff that surrounds it might be clues to solve the problem.

I am exploring the use of Drupal for the website of a Public Broadcasting station that I work for.

I am running it on a new server that we just obtained running RedHat Enterprise Linux version 4. The installations of MySQL and PHP are both the ones that were pre-installed with RedHat.

I was able to install Drupal 4.7.4 without too much trouble... Created a database using instructions from a book that seemed to sorta half-work... And after upping the memory requirement for apache to 32M was able to use the system in what appeared to be working pretty well... But I have my suspicions.

Nevertheless, since it wasn't the main live site that we're using, just a test server (for now), I decided to go ahead and try out 5.0 RC1. I copied over all of the new files into my html directory, adjusted the settings.php with the proper database user and password (pointing it to the server running on localhost). When I went to my admin areas, I got frequent "warnings" having to do with user permissions and databases that weren't created... But generally speaking, the pages would appear and then next time I'd go to the page, the warnings would go away.

Hello,
I have a 4.6 site that had a few members, I wanted to move to 4.7 and figured it would be best to make a totaly new site with all the new cool stuff and then add the few members. Well, since I've been playing around with the new site, I now have a bunch of members on the old one. I did use the same profile field names and was wondering if there is an easy way to import the members to the new site. I'm not that good at database stuff... Is there some sort of export feature?

Thanks!!
Slimz