Upgrading Drupal

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

After upgrading to 4.6.5 from from a development version of Drupal released after 4.6.2, I have this strange problem:

When I come as an anonymous user the front page shows the "Welcome to your new Drupal-powered website"-page, i.e. the page that is shown when you have a fresh installation of Drupal that still has no content.

If I log in, everything works just fine. All the content are there, and I can do all things I should be able to do. This is true both when logged in as user 1, and with other accounts.

But as an anonymous user I can't see any content.

If I try to go directly to a node (by entering it's url), I get a "403 Access Denied". The 403 message is in the graphical style of my ISP. If I try to go to the same url when logged in, there is no problems.

In the 'access control'-page, the node module/access content is checked for anonymous users.

I have also created a fresh database (initilized with the database.mysql-script from 4.6.5). This works just fine, and after creating some content as a logged in user, I'm able to read it as an anonymous user. This leads me to the conclusion that the error is somwhere in my old database.

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When upgrading, I checked the update.php script, but since there was no updates later than 2005-05-07 and 4.6.2 was released 2005-06-29 there was no upgrade to perform.

One strange thing with this though: when manualy checking the database I noticed that in the "users" table there is one new field "changed" that my old database did not have. So I added it by hand.

This wakes the suspicion that my old database is out of sync. But I can't find any other dicrepancies (exept that my old database has a "access" field in the "users" that the new one is missing).

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In an attack of desperaton I even tried with selecting a number of tables from the old database, exporting them and then importing them into the new. But this did not help.

The only difference is that when I try to reach the node directly as an anonymous user, by entering the url, I do not get a 403, I get a 500 (An internal server error occured while processing your request), and the suggestion that this kind of error often is the result of that the program has not been made executable. (Accessing the same node when logged in works just fine.)

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Any advice/pointers would be apreciated.