By Alex_R on

Hi-

I've inherited an actively-used Drupal site that has not been maintained since 2006. The current version is 4.7.4. I'd like to upgrade it to 6 or 7.

I see advice to make all minor upgrades, then the major ones. But I can't find where to get the 'latest' 4.x or any 5 versions.

Does anyone have advice about how to proceed? The site seems to be fairly stock, using core plus the following modules: captcha, ecommerce, event, flexinode, inline and simple_access. Given all the material that's online, I'd much rather upgrade than try to install from scratch!

Thanks,
Alex

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

If you visit http://drupal.org/node/3060/release you can find all releases of Drupal core. So you would first upgrade to Drupal 4.7.11 and make sure the contributed modules are the latest. Then upgrade to Drupal 5, you will probably need the Flexinode to CCK Converter module. Then upgrade to Drupal 6. You will probably want to stop here as I do not think all the modules you use have D7 versions. Remember, do the upgrade on a test site first and before replacing the live site backup the files and the database.

Alex_R’s picture

Alex_R commented

Many thanks for the link and the advice, Steve. I'll certainly take it slow and be sure to back up thoroughly before moving forward!
Regards,
Alex

clancy@culturecat.net’s picture

clancy@culturecat.net commented

Much appreciated seeing this post, as I'm in a similar situation. I have 4.7.3, though. Any release-specific advice, or does the same recommendation apply to me? I don't have the modules Alex has, so I want to go for Drupal 7.

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nevets commented

Same approach applies, upgrade to latest/last D4 release, then D5, then D6 and finally D7.

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clancy@culturecat.net commented

So just go from 4.7.11 to 5.0 stable release, then straight to 6.0 stable release, then straight to 7.0 stable release, no 5.x.xs, 6.x.xs in between? Sorry, I am a giant noob. I've never done a Drupal upgrade and just did my first-ever Drupal (OpenScholar distro) installation yesterday, which luckily went without incident.

And is the upgrade procedure pretty similar/consistent for all these?