Upgrading Drupal

First of all, this is not a campaign about how bad would Drupal 6 be. I think it has to be, one way or another, because there will be a lot of time for having D7 with Views, CCK, OG, Panels, an so on.

The advantage: D6 doesn't requires table lock permission
The problem: D6 doesn't use table lock neither transactions
The questions:
- how can it be possible to work with DB without any kind of lock?
- what can ensure consistency?
- how possible would be to lead with some issue due to this?

in adddition on frontpage javascript not work correctly.

After upgrading from 5.8 to 5.9, the status report still says I'm running 5.8. How can I verify what version is really running? Is it even possible that the status report shows the wrong version number? Would you recommand to do the upgrade steps all over again?

Status report:

Hi,

I upgraded from 5.7 to 5.9 and got all sorts of mad layout displays.

There is an extra 'div' tag coming in at the node.tpl.php level which I can only correct if I remove the closing 'div' on my node.tpl.php file (and all others like it).

Does anyone know where this is coming from? Is anyone having the same problem?

Cheers

Hello, everybody.

I'm brand new to Drupal, though I've been doing software engineering and websites for ... like 15 years? (Started out with HTML 1.0 on NCSA Mosaic before Microsoft had a browser!)

Anyway, I've installed Drupal 6.1 through my hosting providers PLESK interface (Linux/Apache server), and I'm now trying to upgrade the installation to 6.3. Here's what I did:

- Since I have no content to speak of, I didn't bother backing everything up. If necessary i can just blow away the current installation and create a new one.
- I downloaded the 6.3 files and decompressed them to a directory in My Documents.
- I logged in as the admin user (presumably user 01 since there is only one user so far!) and put the site into maintenance mode.
- I uploaded the 6.3 files to the root directory of my site's hosting account.
- I then directed my browser to update.php and clicked "continue".
- Under select versions, all four drop-downs said, "no update available", but I clicked update anyway.
- The new page loads with the little activity bar indicator, claims to be starting updates and just sits there.
- When I check the modules page, they still all show as version 6.1.

I then noticed that there was a javascript error. In Firefox 1.2 (Flock), the error is reported as:

Er... how do I activate a module, or stick it onto my sample Drupal site?

I have downloaded the module. I have installed Drupal, using XAMPP. So now I should be able to go round inside the Drupal menu and "switch on" or "attach" the module somehow, right?

apologies...