If you can't read please download the document
Upload
angus-pratt
View
1.607
Download
1
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
With Drupal 7 released (or about to be released) support for Drupal 5 is going to go away and to keep sites secure it is going to be imperative to upgrade to at least Drupal 6.
Citation preview
2. Familiar? River of Red 3. WorldFallz - November 29, 2009 - 07:19 Upgradingis definitely more complicated than it should be, but I wouldn't say 'extremely'. And the downside to staying with d5 is that it will be end of life as of the release of d7. 4. Agenda
5. Gotchas
6. CCK and Views 7. Imagecache 8. Custom Modules Links 9. 1. Update all modules to latest version. 2. Backup database. 3. Download all site files. 4. Disable/Uninstall Update Status Module. 5. Disable all contributed modules. 6. Switch to Garland theme. 7. Delete D5 files, saving sites, files and any extra folders or files I added. 8. Delete D5 contributed modules 9. Upload latest Drupal release files. 10. Upload D6 versions of contrib modules. 11. Go to /update.php and select continue then update. 12. Review update messages forsignificanterrors. 13. Review modules and enable those compatible with D6. 14. Enable new (but optional) core update status module. 15. Check contributed theme status and update if necessary. 16. Re-save blocks and position. 17. Rebuild any previously built views. 18. Bring the site back online. 10. Keys to an Upgrade
11. Prepare the site 12. Upgrade 13. Test site 14. Deploy 15. Plan
Themes 16. Contrib modules 17. CCK and Views 18. Custom Modules 19. 20. Oh No More RED! 21. Getting Setup
22. GUI (phpmyadmin) 23. Module Backup and Migrate Setup Test site 24. Install Drupal 6, all contrib modules and theme. 25. Prepare D5 Site
26. Turn off contributed modules (do not uninstall) 27. Change theme to Garland or bluemarine 28. Set to maintenance mode 29. Login as user 1 30. Export database 31. Move it to your prepared D6 install 32. Run update.php 33. I loved your description! kappaluppa - November 28, 2009 08:46 Run update.php, get errors, enable a few more modules.Over and over and over. 34. More River of Red 35. Upgrade Theme
36. Custom theme
37. Change variables 38. http://wtanaka.com/drupal/convert-theme-6 39. WSOD http://drupal.org/node/158043 40. CCK and Views
41. CCK - http://drupal.org/node/822352 42. If all the CCK modules are in place.. 43. Open the content type and pray 44. Start troubleshooting 45. Views -> Tools -> Convert 46. Fix as you go 47. http://drupal.org/node/822352 48. Imagecache
49. Gotcha's
50. Messed up file paths
ANY OTHERS??? 51.
52. Convert a Drupal 5 theme to 6( http://wtanaka.com/drupal/convert-theme-6 ) 53. Upgrading Drupal (http://drupal.org/upgrade/) 54. Converting 5.x themes to 6.x (http://drupal.org/node/132442) 55. Converting 5.x modules to 6.x (http://drupal.org/node/114774) 56. Acquia's take 57. http://acquia.com/documentation/getting-started/d5-migration/upgrade/testing/views