Upgrading Drupal

I have spent almost a day and a half for this upgrade.When most of the folks have done it in 5 minutes. I am just trying to put it in here,somethings which maynot be clear for the first time upgraders :-) (who are not familiar with it, like me).

Am using the standard upgrade.txt,explaining little more ,what would have helped me.

1. Backup your database and Drupal directory - especially your "sites"
directory which contains your configuration file and added modules and
themes, any contributed or custom modules in your "modules" directory,
and your "files" directory which contains uploaded files. If other files
have modifications, such as .htaccess or robots.txt, those should be
backed up as well.

pan: This is very important,first backup database and files.One thing which was confusing for me,
was that the,modules and themes directory was in the drupal installation directory,
and not the sites/all/themes directory and sites/all/modules directory
(where we should install all the contrib modeules and themes as best practise).

Not to worry,
(a) Disable the custom,contrib modules.Switch over to core themes (like garland ).
(b) we can create directories(themes and modules) inside sites/all .
(c) Then copy the respective contrib themes and modules into these directories.

I installed drupal 5.7. But came to know 5.8 is out with some security fix. Is there an automatic way by which durpal 5.7 can be updated to 5.8?

And if not, then what is the manual process? Should I just download the newer version and overwrite the old files in server by uploading it? Or is there a better way?

Newbie and learning............

Hi ,
I followed the steps in upgrade.txt. After running the update.php,it took me to the admin page.
But when I try to enable modules ,it gives me the following error

Not Found

The requested URL /drupal/admin/build/modules was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at desinucleus.com Port 80

Hi, I'm upgrading from 5.7 to 5.8, followed UPGRADE.txt to the letter up to this point one question, it says:

Run update.php by visiting http://www.example.com/update.php
(replace www.example.com with your drupal installation's
domain name and path). This step will update the database to
the new Drupal installation.

By this does it mean go to

Hi,

I'm updating Drupal from 6.2 to 6.3. The ninth step in the UPGRADE.txt says "Verify the new configuration file to make sure it has correct information."

Does this mean taking the "default.settings.php" from the 6.3 download and altering the settings to that of what my "settings.php" had in 6.2?

Thanks,
~Austin

Hallo we have drupal 5.1 a custom made theme and common modules installed.
I have to change hosting and best offers comes with php5 and mysql5.
I completely don't know and cannot find if Drupal 5.1 is compatible with php5.

I've tried to have a look at the upgrading procedure but it seems to me extremely complex. Does it involve coding in the themes files? I cannot do this :-(
Do I need to check modules compatibility with newer version?
Do I need to manually update the database?

Dorry for many question, Drupal is complicated for me