Upgrading Drupal

Hi all - I am in the process of migrating to a new server (to go from shared hosting to a VPS). I was at 4.7.2, and tried to install 4.7.3 on the new server. However, I think the new server machine is the issue, not the drupal version. (BTW that means this post is miscategorized as an upgrade problem, but that seems like the closest thing).

Everything went pretty well with the move, except I am unable to log in. When I try to log in with the admin account or any other account, I get "Sorry. Unrecognized username or password. Have you forgotten your password?"

When I click on the "have you forgotten your password" link for kicks and enter my username (eg drhilarius)/email, I get "sorry. the username drhilarius is not recognized."

But the thing is, I go to the users table in the database, and all the users are in there!

So here's what I know:

- Drupal is successfully accessing the database (all the nodes are showing up fine)
- Drupal is successfully getting a hold of the form data (I know this because it said "the username drhilarius is not recognized")
- I'm pretty sure issue is with the new server, not the upgrade, because I tried installing a 4.7.2 instance on the new server and the same thing happened. (They were both pointing at the same db fwiw).
- I don't think it's a problem with Md5ing the passwords or anything, because the above error complains that even the username is not known.

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,