Upgrading Drupal

Hi there,

I'm trying to update a site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. I'm hitting an error message when I go to update.php and cannot continue. Here are the steps I've taken:

1) Make sure all Drupal 6 core and contributed modules are all up to date
2) Disabled, uninstalled and removed modules I don't require
3) Disabled all none core modules
4) Set all themes to Garland and disabled any bespoke themes
5) Remove Drupal core files
6) Remove default.settings.php
7) Add Drupal 7 core files
8) Go to update.php

I get the following error :
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PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server during query: DELETE FROM {cache_bootstrap} WHERE (cid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) ; Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => variables ) in cache_clear_all() (line 169 of /home/devforge/public_html/includes/cache.inc).

The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
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I can install Drupal 7 fresh with the same files on the same hosting account by removing the settings.php file and adding in the Drupal 7 default.settings.php so there appears to be nothing wrong with the files themselves and the hosting account.

I was planning on putting a not-for-profit no kill animal shelter into Drupal. One of the issues is a massive amount of data in several related tables. Tables such as cats, breeds, coloring, health issues. Their database is reasonably normalized.

I'm not changing this, their db is well designed. I wouldn't even know where to start and to be honest why reinvent their wheel.

So I get Drupal 6 installed. Whoot. I get the adoptable cats listed with breeds and everything first try with Views. Slick!

Hi,

I have security updates on my drupal website. Do I need to uninstall drupal and then upgrade it? What is the best way to upgrade it?

Prerna

Hi everybody.

For a project I use some widgets from the jQuery UI (http://jqueryui.com/) which uses jQuery version 1.6.2. Currently a lower version of jQuery is installed on my Drupal 7 installation. I added a "scripts[]= js/path to js" to the .info file and it seems this solution works fine. Drupal overwrites the current jQuery version this way but, is this the right way to do it ?

Thanks,
Sven

Does anyone know how long 6.22 will last?
My sites are not blog site nor high traffic so not much to worry about...but, does 6.22 will last long time? (few years perhaps?)

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I have used pathauto to set url as http://domain.com/aaa/[nid].html before,now i want to change them to http://domain.com/bbb/[nid].html, how to solve these redirect program? must think with friendly to search engine spiders.

Is there any module can solve this work?