Upgrading Drupal

how to upgrade without losing the module folder, theme.

if you could help me, please specify what I need changes, I'm a newbie, I use drupal for 2 weeks, and I have read the instructions on how to upgrade topic, but it is confusing to to me, therefore I created this topic and hope to have a more comprehensive guide for you.

thanks very much for the help.

I wanted to replace my old Drupal 5.x site at http://newideas.net (IP 205.234.252.67) with a new Drupal 7.x site. So to make the new website as clean and new as possible I had my hosting company create a new domain for me at dev.newideas.net (IP 205.234.187.84) a few months ago, where I have completely rebuilt the newideas.net site with a fresh Drupal 7.x installation. Then I hand "cut and pasted" all of the text into new pages, keeping most of the current file names, just giving them "relative" url's so they'd still work when I changed the site from "dev" to "www".

Everything seems to be running fine at dev.newideas.net . Now I want to kill the existing http://newideas.net and replace it with the dev.newideas.net site.

Can I just simply delete/kill the old/current newideas.net site, and then change the appropriate settings in the dev.newideas.net > settings.php file (what's there now is just "boilerplate" text) so that the database settings are correct for "newideas.net" and the base URL setting is correct, and the variable overrides are correct for the "new" site?

Then can I just assign the old "newideas.net" site's IP address to the new "newideas.net" site?

Would that work to replace the old site with the new site?

Obviously I don't do this for a living (I'm a therapist, not a programmer), so please advise with small and simple words.

hello all,

followed all the instructions to upgrade from 6 to 7, but i suppose i didnt changed the admin theme because:
i can see my site, with garland theme, but when i try to switch to normal operation (instead of maintenance), i can see nothing...
for example, in http://my site/admin/appearance i see:

Following the information on my Drupal install I have tried to upgrade 6.24.
I followed the steps in the upgrade text, removing the sites folder and any special modules used by my site, delete all folders and drop in the 6.24 folders and files.

just did a test upgrade on a copy of my site from d6 to d7

followed all directions, update.php ran, and now the d7 pages show menu items such as
Management
User menu
Development

but they are not expandable, i am logged in as user1 but i can not get to any menu items

please help me get the menus back

d7 upgrade site with non expandable menus

Hi all,

I am new to the drupal development. when i am some of drupal modules to recommended version i also downloaded recommended new drupal core module i.e 6.24 accidentally i added this module to already existed drupal version 6.22 module folder, then all the sites under drupal 6.22 now running with drupal 6.24. i dont know why they are looking for that module even they are existing in sites folder of drupal 6.22. i just want to get back to the same version as previous please advise how to do that.. all these things happend on production server... please help me....