Upgrading Drupal

For over 2 years I run small site for a religion group. It's Drupal 4.7 and I think it's time to move to 6 :)

I'm testing migration. Everything is ok. But I'm currently using 'Simple Access' module, which is not upgraded to 6. It's a pity, it does exectly what we need:(

Which other module I can use?? I go through Modules and can't find anything right for me.
Basic requirement:
- to have possibility to select which role can see node while it is created.

I used Fantastico to upgrade from Drupal 6.1 to 6.2 and encountered the following message:

The update.php script is accessible to everyone without authentication check, which is a security risk. You must change the $update_free_access value in your settings.php back to FALSE.

Where is the setting.php file located? I didn't notice it in the Drupal root directory.

Still waiting to see if someone can help out with previous post, in the mean time, I have followed upgrade instructions meticulously and performed the upgrade on my test site, set up on my local testing environment (Mac, apache, mysql and php) It has not worked with about a page and a half of error messages and I have no idea where to now.

What are the most obvious places to check?
thanks,
Renaee.

Hi there,
I am attempting my first upgrade of my drupal site 5.1 to drupal 6.2. I have followed best practice instructions and set up a local testing environment to do the upgrade on a test site first. Have set up MAMP which has installed php, mysql server and apache server onto my 10.3 OS for Mac computer. All working well however I do not know how to access the mysql database via the terminal. I need to have terminal access because when I tried to import the database (I exported the live database from remote server onto my desktop) into the local mysql environment via phpmyadmin the browser timed out. If I kept refreshing it got there eventually, importing the complete database, but this seems like a process prone to error to me?

The instructions on the homepage of MAMP for starting mysql did not work for me. They were two ways suggested as follows:

To connect to the MySQL Server from your own scripts use the following connection parameters:

Host: localhost
[Port: 8889]
User: root
Password: root

Example:

$link = mysql_connect('localhost:8889', 'root', 'root');

or you can connect using an UNIX Socket:

Socket: /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock
User: root
Password: root

Example:
http://drupal.org/project/issues/infrastructure
$link = mysql_connect(':/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock', 'root', 'root');

After upgrading my Drupal site from 6.something to 6.2 the files in sites/default/files seem to have vanished! I only had a few in there, so I re-uploaded them manually via FTP. My site is new and just for testing, so there have been no calamities. But... what happened? Why would the files, including logo.jp, the site logo, just vanish?

Thanks!

doug

im spending more time trying to fix problems than actually running my website,

why cant i find any sort of document that shows me how to downgrade from 6 to 5?

lets be serious, drupal 6 sucks.. really really bad,

it is awful and crappy, please someone point me up to some kind of "how to downgrade" link

cause drupal 6 sucks that bad

Update: this thread is locked since it didn't help anybody. GK