Upgrading Drupal

I was asked to upgrade a 4.6 site to 4.7, but it is not going cleanly. Part of the problem is that the site was mainly hacked together in the first place.

I'm thinking of just doing a clean 4.7 install and trying to transfer over the nodes, user data, profile data, etc.. Anyone have experience doing this, and if so, what tools did you use?

I don't mind going into the database and manually trying to move stuff over, but if there are existing tools to accomplish this, that would be a big bonus.

Thanks for any thoughts/tips.

This was posted elsewhere but I have moved it, as this is the more appropriate location, as pwolanin pointed out to me.

The database might not be perfect...but I have my user list, my basic content, etc. I don't know if the software is robust enough to handle our usage. I do need someone to walk me thru what I need to do...

Upgrade Disaster
allie - October 1, 2006 - 00:03
Project: Drupal
Version: 4.7.3
Component: other
Category: support
Priority: critical
Assigned: Unassigned
Status: active
Description

Our site crashed originally because of a server error (limited memory), and pretty much degraded over a period of two months, then was completely blank for a few days. Then, everything was wiped, corruption in the database was found and corrected, and now we have the basic appearance of being back--but we're not back.
We have an assortment of errors that just escalated.

Please help us get back on our feet?

Sample error messages follow:

Warning: Unknown column 'referer' in 'field list' query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (0, 'php', 'Table 'drupal1.node_revisions' doesn't exist\nquery: SELECT n.nid, n.vid, n.type, n.status, n.created, n.changed, n.comment, n.promote, n.moderate, n.sticky, r.timestamp AS revision_timestamp, r.title, r.body, r.teaser, r.log, r.format, u.uid, u.name, u.picture, u.data FROM node n INNER JOIN users u ON u.uid = n.uid INNER JOIN node_revisions r ON r.vid = n.vid WHERE n.nid = 20 in /home/novelspot/www/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.', 2, '', 'http://novelspot.net/about_us', 'http://novelspot.net/', '66.61.53.48', 1159657774) in /home/novelspot/www/www/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120

So far the drupal intalation has been great! brand new 4.7.3 install, some extra modules, but not much..

today i was trying to add the CCK module and saw the recommndation to run the update.php script. I said.. ok. let do it. clicked on it. it complaind about a couple of entries, but i did not think anything of it. so i went ahead and ran the script. it only had to update "system 110". so i let it.

then it spit out 15 pages of database update errors.

AAAAck.

i printed them to a pdf.

I want to upgrade:

php4 to php5
apache1.3 to apache 2

while running civicspace 0.8.5.

It is currently on a virtual server but it needs to go to a server that has php5 and apache 2 only.

What problems can I expect? I suppose it has been tried...

Hi, I was poking around the search.module tonight and I couldn't for the life of me find anywhere I could comment out the display of the tabs above the search box on the search page. The reason for this is that I don't want to give my users the option to search for other users. I only want them to be able to search through the content of the site.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

I'm in the process some sites for someone from 4.6

Most everything is a big, big mess. But that is a different story. I'm curious about the function "listandhighlightnodes()" that occurs in a number of places throughout the website, primarily in the page.tpl.php file.

I searched here on drupal.org and also with Google, but can't really track down what module they might relate to (if it is even a Drupal module). So far I've had to comment them out everywhere I find them.