By sodani on

I have a new project to upgrade an old drupal site to a current version and I wanted to get some advice from the community.

I don't know what version of drupal I'm working with - it doesn't say on the system.module file. Only - $Id: system.module,v 1.103.2.1 2003/11/09 01:22:16 dries Exp $

The files and folders on the server are a mess and I have no idea which files are drupal files and which aren't. Given this, my thinking was that I would first try to determine the version I'm working off of, then find a fresh copy of it so that I know which files are drupal files and go from there.

However, I can't find the version # and I also can't find any drupal installation packages from back in 2003.

Any advice here on the best steps to take?

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styro’s picture

styro commented

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/modules/system.module?view=l...

The best way to see the changes made would be with CVS. Check out DRUPAL-4-3-2 into a directory alongside the existing and run a diff across both directories. If you don't have access to *nix you'll need to find other ways of running equivalent tools.

eg:

$ diff -rq known-4-3-2-directory/ your-mystery-directory/

will tell you which files differ.

and:

$ diff -u known-4-3-2-directory/somefile your-mystery-directory/somefile

will tell you the differences in a specific file you got from the previous list.

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Will White’s picture

Will White commented

If you're on Windows, getting to the point where you can even run those commands is a time commitment.

Look for CHANGELOG.txt. There also might be some hints in update.php.

Mike@frazierhome.net’s picture

Mike@frazierhome.net commented

I've decided to try to finally upgrade my own site which has been running 4.4 for quite some time. Definetly look at the CHANGELOG.txt file and that should give you an idea of the version this is. My plan is to upgrade to the latest 4.6 release and then look at moving on up to 5.0rc2.

Make sure you read through the update.txt / update.php . I found that versions before 4.5 have to have some tables created by hand before you start the upgrade process (its documented in there).

Good luck!

sodani’s picture

sodani commented

I've been able to confirm that it's 4.3.2 from looking at the CHANGELOG.txt file. Does anyone know where to get these previous versions? I can't seem to find them anywhere.

I guess the idea is that I would get the site working with more recent versions stepwise by installing newer versions while tweaking the database. Is that right?

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sepeck commented

I don't know of any packaged releases that old. You'll need to pull them from cvs.
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/
On the bottom drop down you can select which branch version you want to look at and down load them that way.
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/?only_with_tag=DRUPAL-4-4
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/?only_with_tag=DRUPAL-4-5
Then get 4.6 and 4.7 from the packages

If you are familiar with cvs clients you can grab them that way as well.

There are some old upgrade articles in the handbook which we've left published.
http://drupal.org/node/75047

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