Upgrading Drupal

Friends,
I need to upgrade my drupal-4.6.3 to 4.6.6.
My question is:
Should to update from 4.6.3 to 4.6.6 directly or first from 4.6.3 to 4.6.4 and after from 4.6.4 to 4.6.5 and finally from 4.6.5 to last release 4.6.6 ?? What do you advise me??

Thank you very much.

richardv

I have 4.6.5 running with 2 websites under the /sites directory on s spare server. I use Apache 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.18, and PHP 4.4.1. I followed the instructions of: http://drupal.org/upgrade/basic-steps-via-GUI without success.

1. Backup
2. Deleted Drupal 4.6.5
3. Installed 4.7b6
4. Updated settings.php with:

$db_url = 'mysql://abc:0123456789@localhost/databaseabc';
$db_prefix = '';

and

So now I am running 4.7 and I've been trying to install theme editor, but there is no 4.7 version on the module list. I've tried both the 4.6 and the cvs versions, but I keep getting the same kinds of errors when trying to config or create a new theme:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: form_select() in /home/luxuriac/public_html/modules/theme_editor.module on line 465

Background:
ravneborg.dk runs against a MySQL 4.0.24 server, and I'm currently trying to set up a test environment here on my homemachine, running a MySQL 5.0.19 server.

Problem:
When creating the database for the test/development install on my local machine, I don't know what encoding/collation I should use. I want it to be as identical to the 4.0 one as possible. Any tips, hints, pointers?

So, I'm not sure that I'm doing this correctly... especially because I got a huge error message -- but basically, I set up 4.7 CVS and got it working, just perfectly, by itself. Then, I decided to try and port over my database from 4.6.5 to it.

OK, so, this is what I did -- trying to follow the instructions, underneath update.txt as closely as possible.

I logged on as the user number #1.

I then used PHPMyAdmin and dropped all of my database files in mySQL that I had been using with 4.7cvs. And I copied the files I wanted to "update", i.e., my old 4.6.5 database files into their place. I assume this is what is meant by the instruction in the update.php file:

3. Remove all the old Drupal files then unpack the new Drupal
   files into the directory that you run Drupal from.

[Am I right to assume that the drupal files that are to be moved -- referred to in this above step --are the database files -- not the module/core files?]

OK, and then I ran update.php.

and I got the following very long message...


Drupal database update

* user warning: Table 'search_total' already exists query: update_sql CREATE TABLE search_total ( word varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', count int(10) unsigned default NULL, PRIMARY KEY word (word) ) in /home/ithou/public_html/4.7cvs/drupal47cvs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.
* user warning: Can't DROP 'path'; check that column/key exists query: update_sql ALTER TABLE blocks DROP path in /home/ithou/public_html/4.7cvs/drupal47cvs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 120.

Help! I just went though an upgrade of drupal from 4.5 to 4.6.5 Everything was going (relatively) smoothly and I seemed to have successfully upgraded core. I then started trying to put back my add on modules. Everything was looking good until I went to the block module to adjust the blocks according to the 4.6 method. (Up to that point blocks were showing on both sides of the page and I thought I just had to put in the correct pages for viewing) I enabled a couple of blocks, pressed submit, and Bang! all my blocks dissapeared including my personal navigation block.