By astu70 on

I am a newbie to Drupal. I am working on a website using D7.0 and Bartik theme. When I logged on yesterday, there was notice I needed to upgrade with 7.2 being the preferred version. Having no experience, I somehow got to the install Drupal window where the “Select an installation profile” window (URL is http://sitename.org/install.php) . This happened while I was consulting instructions and videos regarding updates. If I quit Firefox and open it again, the site opens to the http://sitename.org/install.php) window.again

First questions: In the list of steps to be competed, there is a “Configure site” step. Can I remove the modules, change the theme, and put my site in maintence mode at that step? If not, how can I stop this process or reverse it so I can remove the modules, change the theme and put my site in maintence mode?

I read that I should first upgrade to 7.1 and then onto 7.2.

Second question. Do I need to upgrade to 7.1 and then to 7.2 or can I go directly to 7.2 from 7.0?

This being the first time to try this, I had no idea what filesdirectories I needed to delete. It occurred to me that I had the 7.1 (also 7.2) extracted folder on my desktop and I could just open it and compare the list of file/directories to the list on the public_html folder on the host site.

Third question. Is the comparison I mentioned a good way to completely remove and replace the necessary files?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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khanz’s picture

khanz commented

You can directly upgrade to latest minor version, no need to upgrade to 7.1 first. You can read an alternate upgrade method here... http://drupal.org/node/390448 , its for D6 but the steps are similar for D7.

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astu70 commented

khanz,

Apologize for this delayed response (Gaterhing courage to do the upgrade and then double checking everything). I followed instructions in the link you sent. I opened Cyberduck to access the public_html folder on my site, copied the 7.2 files to that window and after about 5 minutes, I got a Failed message. I don't know what went wrong. Possible due to network traffic, the upload failed (I am using Bluehost)

I did replace the sites folder in the 7.2 folder with the downloaded sites folder from Blurehost, but I don't think that is the issue.

Would it be possible to upload the zipped folder of 7.2 to the public_html folder and then extract it?

Can you send me a link to a tutorial for the Backup and Migrate module. I was not clear which of the choices I should use in the backup.

I did use Bluehost's Backup and Migrate in their cPanel.

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khanz commented

I am not familiar with Cyberduck and how it works, so can't comment on the error. I personally use Filezilla to upload to my server which incidentally is Bluehost. I followed almost the same steps to upgrade my site to current Drupal 6. For backup i don't use 'Backup and Migrate' module instead I do it from phpmyadmin. Steps I follow for upgrade..

1) log in as the user ID 1 and remain logged in till the upgrade is finished.
2) Place the site in "Off-line" mode
3) Back up your database and 'sites' directory located at example.com/sites.
4) Also backup your robots.txt and .htaccess files
5) Turn off all non-core modules - I just skip this step, i am a bit lazy for that :). Never had problem even after skipping this step.
6) FTP the new drupal version and overwrite everything except 'sites' folder.
7) Now restore your backup of robots.txt and .htaccess files.
8) Run update.php by visiting http://www.example.com/update.php
9) Turn on all non-core modules if you turned them off earlier.
10) Set your site to online mode again.

I guess you can upload the zipped folder to the public_html folder and then extract it.

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astu70 commented

I will follow your instructions and will let you know the outcome.

Thanks for providing this.

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astu70 commented

While attempting to get a plugin to work with CKEditor, I logged out from my site and the page went to the maintenance page. I clicked the back arrow to get back to my page. On the front page is the option to "Go Online". When I click this it goes to my maintenance page. If I click on the Configuration link in the black strip it goes to my maintenance page. I tried to open another window and add "administrator? after the URL and it will not work. I did a search on drupal.org, but all responses were to change the appearance of the maintenance page

What can I type into the address bar of the maintenance page to allow me to login?

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khanz commented

example.com/?q=user - if clean url is not enabled
example.com/user - if clean url is enabled

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socceronly commented

Something this straightforward was way way too difficult to find.

The manual and all the copies of it include going into the command line.

This would end Drupal for so many people.

Thank you,
JM

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astu70 commented

I successfully upgraded my web site to 7.2. The only glitch is that CKEditor is not working. It will require an upgrade.

Thank you very much for your assistance. I could not have done it without your help.

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rvdebby commented

I have a site that was created in Drupal 6, the developers say they can't/won't upgrade to 7. But all new sites are done in 7. Now I see that Drupal 8 is on the horizon.. is that why they won't upgrade?