Upgrading Drupal

I was having trouble (see my post http://drupal.org/node/84530) so i figgured i'd use this downtime to upgrade from 4.65 to 4.7 ..

it looks like the upgrade (and update.php) went fine, but now all i get is generic error 403 Access denied when trying to access any pages on the site. if i remove .htaccess, all i get is 'page not found' errors...

help .. my site is totall dead ..

My last drupal update was 4.7.0-rc3. I installed 4.7.3 in a different directory, and copied the files recommended by the UNIX shell upgrade instructions, but all my links refer to the old directory. I updated $base_url in settings.php so I don't see why this is happening.

Help muchly appreciated!

--White Raven

Hi,

Being pretty sure I am running Drupal 4.7.2, I want to upgrade to 4.7.3. However, I found the docs to be confusing as to which files to replace. According to the upgrade docs, you should replace all files - this can hardly be right. So, is there a list of exactly which files to replace and which settings to edit to upgrade from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3?

Sincerly,
MarkupCrisis

Is this true? I've seen this in a couple of posts. I contacted my host and they told me

Unfortunately the mod_security module is server-wide, and
the instructions in the first-half of your description may
not be performed on your server. This module is a necessary
component in decreasing the vulnerability of users on the
server to attacks.

The instructions I gave were those provided by Kennyg in

http://drupal.org/node/80299

Hello,

I have upgraded my site from 4.6x to 4.7.3 for about a month with no significant problems except one: The translated strings keep getting lost everyday. This has never happened even once before the upgrade.

Here are some of the details of this issue:

[1] The copy of the locale.module currently running has the $Id: locale.module, v 1.135.2.1 2006/08/08 17:50:28 killes Exp $. No modification has been done to that file.

[2] I have only one languege activated on the site. It's based on earlier version of Chinese translation with newer translations merged into it. English is not activated. No option for user to select language.

[3] The site can be overloaded during busy hours (SQL connection lost or SQL went away).

[4] The translation strings lost most often are the most common translations (such as translation for "Home", "Mon", "Add new comments", "My inbox" etc.) They got lost with great frequence: Everyday (but not always the same set of strings).

[5] This lost is perminent. Clean cache table won't help. Leave it along will not see any of those translation back.

[6] Those losted translation cannot be fixed with po translation file import with the "merge" mode (keep existing translation and add new ones). The import would complete without error and report "0 translation added".

[7] I tried (on a test installation of my site) deleting the language and recreate it with a po file downloaded from drupal.org. This doesn't prevent the translations from disappearing.