Upgrading Drupal

With drupal5, using bonus-views, image, and usernode, I was able to create a grid of users:
a tile of photos, with just the user name under each photo. It looked like this:

http://joomla.masters.epita.net/etudiants/trombi

(weird name, but yeah, it's drupal...)

I've tried to do the same with views2, avatars, imagecache, and imagecache_profiles.

Here's a list of files changed by the latest Drupal upgrades. We use this so we don't have to replace the entire Drupal installation, as usually only a few specific files have actually changed.

Files Changed by Drupal Upgrades - simply select the list pertaining to your Drupal installation.

Cheers,
Alex

What is the current state of affairs for upgrading or updating core and modules?

I really can't take this anymore. I like the fact that Drupal keeps up and reacts to the security problems, but after going through the upgrade process (on 5 sites) maybe 30 or 40 times, I've had enough. People that say it takes 2 minutes are being utterly ridiculous or reckless. The first site usually takes me about 2 hours, then the next ones take me about 10 or 15 extra minutes each -- so around 3 hours total. Fun fun.

Wordpress has an automatic updater -- both core and plug-ins. Why can't Drupal? I keep reading about security holes for auto-updaters. Does Wordpress have a security hole? I have to point out that it's a security hole to leave a site un-upgraded, too, since upgrading is a PITA, and one tends to procrastinate over doing it.

Assuming that's true that an auto-updater has inherent security holes, could some process on the local PC be built to log in with FTP or SFTP and do the upgrade? I use SyncBack Pro, anyway, to do all the file moving. Maybe someone who knew all the pitfalls of upgrading could develop something like that on top of SyncBack Pro or on WinSCP, if there really is some reason the server software can't be trusted to do it.

Hello,

I am currently have a multisite setup running from a single Drupal code base, I was reading the tutorial (http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction) and was wondering if step #4 switch to default themes and disable contributes modules, has to be applied to all sub sites or it is just to the site which runs the Drupal core? Also, will I have to run the update.php file for each site or just the Drupal root install?

Many Thanks,

I have Drupa installed on HostPapa web site and wanted to add imce module. So i downloaded the module files to my PC then uploaded to hosting site. imce appears in module list but i get this error if i try to enable

Fatal error: Call to undefined function imce_install_profiles() in /home/jlfottv/public_html/test/modules/imce/imce.install on line 9

I guess i am doing something fundamentally wrong in the download process but not sure how to directly download to my hosted web site.

Any suggestions?

I am running a test version of Drupal on localhost. Under 6.12, clean URLs worked fine. I upgraded to 6.13, without changing my server configuration at all, and clean URLs no longer work.

apachectl -M shows that mod_rewrite is still loaded:
Loaded Modules:
rewrite_module (shared)
Syntax OK

The .htaccess file in /var/www/drupal looks like this:
#===========================================
#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

Order allow,deny

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Make Drupal handle any 404 errors.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Force simple error message for requests for non-existent favicon.ico.

# There is no end quote below, for compatibility with Apache 1.3.
ErrorDocument 404 "The requested file favicon.ico was not found.

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
# but the following cannot be changed at runtime.

# PHP 4, Apache 1.