Upgrading Drupal

Hi everybody,

I just done my first upgrade from drupal 4.6 to 4.7 beta 4.
I checked into my modules/ folder and seems that all
the cotrib modules in it have been deleted.

I had two folders "image" and "htmlarea" containing modules.
There were empty after the upgrade process.

I did some mistakes or this is the correct behaviour of the upgrade?

Thanks.

Fabio

Hi everyone...

well, i did the upgrade on one site and... no errors, all went well!!!

but the node page doesn't show any teasers.

i disabled all the modules, that didn't seem to help.

i re-enabled front_page module and, well, our front_page which has a phpsnippet to list the top 10 recent items promoted to the front page by title... well that DOES work. but if you go to oursite.org/node, nothing. it's blank, jim.

any thoughts?

I did an upgrade originally from CVS (1-25-06) to this new Beta 4 (yeah I know there were few, if any changes in a day), and after that, I couldn't even leave any comments. On attempts, I just kept getting the "Validation Error..." box. I figured "Hmm, okay, maybe something went wrong in the upgrade" and then performed the following steps:

- backup of database
- drop all tables from database
- remove all files from web server
- upload all files for new Beta 4 to web server
- run the new SQL create from Beta 4 to create a new clean database install

How easy will it be to upgrade 4.7 beta 3 to the release?

I am going to start a new web-site soon and I want it to be 4.7 based. According to these forums, its beta 3 is mature enough to start the development right away. I wonder how easy or difficult will it be to upgrade to the release version, when it finally comes out.
I realize, that there might be no precise answer, but Drupal veterans probably did a lot of similar upgrades in the past and hopefully could guess the difficulty.

I'm still being attacked via the XML-RPC library since I'm still running 4.4.1 so I figured it was time to
bite the bullet and upgrade. First I backed up drupal.sql and all my drupal files. I logged in as per instructions and copied the 4.6.5 files over and ran update.php . The update script defaulted to "First update since Drupal 4.4.0 release" which almost completed but got a few errors at the end. So I started over and the second time I tried "First update since Drupal 4.5.0 release" which completed without errors.


When I logged into my drupal site it looked rather messed up... some graphics files were missing and there were php errors in the log. At this point I got cold feet and reverted back to 4.4.1 which worked as expected.


I'm going to set up a test drupal 4.6.5 site and leave the old 4.4.1 site up and running then I'll try to get the 4.6.5 test site working correctly and then replace it. I was just wondering if anyone had upgraded from 4.4.1 to 4.6.5 and what they had to do to get all working.


The bad guys of the internet are trying all sorts of nasty tricks with wget so I ended up removing it. I'm sure they'll eventually figure out another attack. Somehow they managed to write executables in my /tmp directory and run it. In the meantime I'm watching /tmp and my processes closely. Guess I should mention I'm running Fedora Core 1. Time for another backup tonight...

I have a severe issue. I uploaded and 'tar'ed' the voting module. I installed the database. When I went to activate the module, the browser page is just white, the browser indicates done, but no data.

What Next?

I had this once before and was able to recover but for the life of me can't remember what I did.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

t4him