Upgrading Drupal

I’m wondering if anyone has worked on a comprehensive .hgignore file for Drupal?

I’m managing Drupal core, modules, and site-specific content with Mercurial (Hg), a distributed version control system (DVCS), using a variant of these instructions for Git, a similar DVCS. It’s made maintaining my sites very easy.

Mercurial has a feature that lets you ignore certain files that otherwise might get checked into your version controlled repositories. You can use both shell-style globbing patterns and regular expression to filter and ignore files, and this is best done before you start checking any into your repository. There are certain files in Drupal that I think are candidates for ignoring — downloads, temporary files, and caches that don’t need to be revision controlled — but I want to sanity check my choices. In particular, I’m not clear on what to do with the files in the Drupal “files” directory. Below is what I have so far, but I’m not sure whether some of these files should be ignored or not, or whether there are others I’ve missed.

.hgignore:
# Glob syntax
syntax: glob
# Tar files downloaded directly into the "modules" directory

I missed the update to 5.11, so I'm going from 5.10 to 5.12.

After the upgrade I get this error page:

Unsupported database type

The database type is unsupported. Please use either mysql for MySQL 3.x & 4.0.x databases, mysqli for MySQL 4.1.x+ databases, or pgsql for PostgreSQL databases. The database information is in your settings.php file.

I'm only having this problem with my local testing machine which is a iMac running MAMP Pro (php4 or php5, MySQL 5.0.41).
The upgrade went fine with the site I'm developing on the production server which is (php4, MySQL 3.23.49 ).
When I develop for this particular site I set MAMP Pro to be php4, but I can't change the MySQL version. I try to keep things as close as possible to the clients hosting server.

Anyways, I didn't and don't have any issue connecting to the database with Drupal 5.10 using php4 and mysql for MySQL 5.
And things work after a clean install with Druapl 5.12 running under php5 and install using mysqli for MySQL 5.

But when I do a clean install of 5.12 using php4 and mysql for MySQL 5, I don't get the option to use mysqli as a database because I'm running php4, if I understand things correctly.

Things break again under php5 and install using mysqli for MySQL 5 as soon as I import the data base tables from 5.10 installation running under php4

I'm making a brand-new drupal site. I just installed drupal 6.4 using my ISP's "Fantastico Deluxe" drupal installer, installed a couple of modules, turned on cron, and ran a status report that said I needed to upgrade to 6.6 for security. I downloaded 6.6, put site in maint. mode, disabled all non-core modeuls, copied sites/default/settings.php, sites/all/modules (hadn't put anything in sites/default/files yet). I then renamed my top level directory, renames drupal-6.6 to the directory name, and ran update.php.

Everything appears to be successful, but now clean URLs don't work. They were turned on and working before the upgrade, but now I had to manually add the "?q=" to get to the admin page and disable them, and it reports "Your system configuration does not currently support this feature. The handbook page on Clean URLs has additional troubleshooting information.". I certainly haven't changed any server settings, so I don't understand this. If I rename the directories back the way they were, so it is using the 6.4 installation, I get "Your server has been successfully tested to support this feature.".

It also says that "sites/default/files" is not writable in 6.6, but looking at the directory it is mode 777. Again, renaming the directories to run 6.4 fixes this.

Hello

I'm a newbie in Drupal

Ithought to upgrade was very simple but i was wrong

my association website was in rel 6.0 since a long time so I update to 6.6 but I've 2 problems:

1) the start page for login (the site is only for members) was changed in default by Drupal. How come back to previous
2) the logged members even if login is ok have no more access to contenents

Only for admin users is all ok like before upgrade

Someone can help me please?????

Sorry for my english .... only school level !!!!

Thanks my friends

our website uses drupal and i'm a bit new to it. www.fsrn.org . we've been running into the bug where we've supposedly got too many users and the server crashes.

we're a news organization and have expanded election coverage planned for november 4. i'm expecting MUCH more traffic to the site than usual. what normally happens once a day (uploads, downloads, people accessing audio, users logging in, etc) over a 10 hour period will be happening 7 times a day, within a fifteen minute window each hour.

I was installing some contributed 6.6 modules to my recently upgraded 6.6 installation when my host (SiteGround) suspended my account because my site was eating their shared server resource. Initially they wanted to ban me from their shared servers and insisted I move to a dedicated server. After much haggling they have agreed to let me back on. The log recorded this as the problem: 67.15.XXX - - [29/Oct/2008:17:21:59 -0500] "GET /admin/reports/request-test HTTP/1.0" 503 1511 "-" "Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)" .