Upgrading Drupal

I'm looking for a "best practices" way of addressing security fixes to Drupal. One idea is to just put the site into "Maintenance mode" via Admin -> settings -> Site maintenance. Another way to do it is to point your apache to a brand new folder with a simple index.html file that has your maintenance message.

I'm guessing the latter is the way to go, but I'd like any feedback you have.

My gut feeling is that the "maintenance mode" may have left you exposed to an attack on that /files directory while you were busy patching and testing the jump from 4.7 to 4.7.1.

Hello!

I want to upgrade (manually) a very old drupal installation (I dont know the version, it was installed around February/March 2003) to 4.7.1.
In the new database structure node has a column named "vid", which doesnt seem to be the vocabulary-ID.
What is it?

Thanks,
Eric

Just upgraded from 4.7 to 4.7.1. Originally, received this message when I when to the Admin>Settings page:

hi,
I upgrade my drupal to 4.7 and later to 4.7.1, and the statistics module don't work, to find the problem i have instaled a clear copy of drupal 4.7.1 on my server and the statistics module don't work.

I don't see the views in my posts and my recent hits is empty

The accesslog table is empty, is normal?
my problem is the configuration?

thanks to all

OeX

I've been trying to upgrade my Drupal 4.6.6 site for awhile now, but without success. Now I need some feedback to try to figure out what I'm doing wrong...

It feels like I've tried everything: I've followed each step in the upgrade video several times, even taking extreme measures, like deactivating every module possible and removing every extra folder or file (like the "files" folder) to try to make sure nothing would mess up the upgrade.

I upgraded my site from 4.6.5 to 4.7 (and now 4.7.1) and came into the following problem.

Hyphens & quotes now show up as funny characters but if I SSH into the server and request the same node from MySQL, it looks fine!

Here's a page that's not displaying correctly (Presentation Skills – 7 Top Tips):
http://small-business-hub.co.za/node/453

And here's the output of MySQL on the box: