Upgrading Drupal

This pertains more to "updating" Drupal.

With version 6 and older, when Drupal released new versions (such as bug or security fixes) - there was a complicated update process which required converting to a default Drupal theme, disabling all modules, then installing the Drupal update, then re-enabling the modules and theme - basically described here: http://drupal.org/upgrade/preparing-the-site

I am a newbie and I have just upgraded 6.19 to 6.20, running on Microsoft IIS 7.5.

The Drupal Status Report has a warning that a Configuration file is not protected. The explanatory text says "The directory sites/default is not protected from modifications and poses a security risk. You must change the directory's permissions to be non-writable."

hi,
in attempting to solve my previously reported issue with our site's menu:
http://drupal.org/node/1066382

i have been going through the system table making some manual edits. i have changed:
modules/{ prior Drupal installation}/menu/menu.module
to:
modules/menu/menu.module

i've done this also for the user.module; i.e.,
modules/{ prior Drupal installation}/user/user.module

to
modules/user/user.module

Hi everybody!
After a few unsuccesful tries with this upgrade and popping by IRC a couple of times, again unsuccessfully, I am trying the forum.

What happens is defenetly odd.
I am upgrading site by site a multisite installation of d6.

I upgraded a few sites, but this one I cannot upgrade it for some reasons. Here is what I do:

hi,

i get a 404 with my home page. i have changed the theme to garland. i can step through the code, but i'm getting lost.

from index.php, i go into the bootstrap.inc. i eventually call function drupal_lookup_path, located in path.inc. I follow through and I see that $_GET['q'] is set to 'HOME'.

i step through the _drupal_bootstrap_full call, the routine that follows setting the path. when i finish the drupal_bootstrap call and return to index.php. $path is NULL.

Hallo
I've upgraded my drupal 6.20 version to drupal 7.

If I run the Drupal database update I get the following error message: