Upgrading Drupal

A while ago I got fed up with the difficulty in upgrading drupal, so I created a new method of doing it.

The intention was to have one drupal codebase for multiple sites of different users so that the ISP could upgrade drupal.

I didn't have time to finish it, but it still makes upgrades very simple.

Within my public_html I un-tar drupal, so I have a folder called drupal-6.2 WITHIN my public_html.
My index.php file looks like this:

// $Id: index.php,v 1.94 2007/12/26 08:46:48 dries Exp $

# first include site config, then chain the real index.php
define(DRUPAL_DIR,'drupal');
#set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . DRUPAL_DIR);


$drupal_pages=array_flip(array('/update.php','/index.php'));
if (array_key_exists($drupal_pages[$_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"]],$drupal_pages))
  include(DRUPAL_DIR.$_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"]);
else
  include(DRUPAL_DIR.'/index.php');

and my public_html has these symlinks:

includes -> drupal/includes
misc -> drupal/misc
modules -> drupal/modules
profiles -> drupal/profiles
scripts -> drupal/scripts
sites -> drupal/sites
themes -> drupal/themes

and finally this symlink which I change on upgrade:
drupal->drupal-6.2

Hi,

When we upgrade a module/themes in general, should we remove the existing version directory first, or just put the new one on top of the old one?

Thanks

hi,
i know you are not my bitches.
I know i am an idiot.
I am prepared for the fact that i will have to completely rebuild my site.

I am hopefully that you know a hell of a lot than me
about Drupal

OK so i followed to the letter, the instructions on upgrading from 5.x to 6.2
I even did a full backup and everything.

What i didn't do was set my theme back to default.
I was using a theme called friends electric which i had modified slightly (like just colors, almost no mods)
So, unaware that i had swaped my brain for a mouldy turnip, i hit go and vitisted update.php, filled in the bits and now get this:

Warning: Unknown column 'serialized' in 'field list' query: SELECT data, created, headers, expire, serialized FROM cache WHERE cid = 'variables' in /home/sleeping/public_html/includes/database.mysqli.inc on line 128

Hi,

I working on the test server for my drupal 5 site, which i am trying to upgrade to drupal 6.

All seems to have gone well except when I goto my status page. I get a cron maintence task error highlight.

I then get an error when running CRON manually from the status page which is :

############################################################################

Fatal error: Call to undefined function tt_login() in /var/www/mySite-drupal6/includes/common.inc(1537) : eval()'d code on line 79

I am building a website for my company in Drupal 5.7.
I read that when Drupal 7 releases Drupal 5 is not longer supported by the developer community.
I would like to migrate my website to Drupal 6 before that.

So I was curious if there was already a date planned for the release of Drupal 7?

I installed Drupal using Fantastico, which was provided by my webhost company. Inmediately I received a message that I had to upgrade Drupal manually. I tried doing so, but apparently didn't do it correctly. Now my website it's gone and this is the message I get whenever I access it.

Edited by VeryMisunderstood; removed complete pasting of .htaccess file

Does anybody know how to fix this? My web hosting company said that they do not provide support for Drupal. I'm a newbie at this, and it seems like I got in over my head. Thanks in advance!