By ralitalien on

Hello,

I've used the MS WebMatrix web development tool to install Drupal. Unfortunately, WebMatrix installs version 7.2. Anyway, the installation via WebMatrix was successfull. I was able to connect to my first drupal website. I did not perform any additional comfiguration as I wanted to upgrade to the 7.4 version first.

I thought this would be a great exercise to do as eventually I would have to perform an upgrade. So I followed the instructions in the "Upgrade.txt" file. I've done it a few times now and I am sure that I haven't skipped any steps. The .htaccess and robots.txt files were not modified. All core files were deleted and the new ones copied to my site's location ("sites" folder untouched). Even, the parameter in "settings.php" file, "$update_free_access = FALSE;", was correctly changed to "TRUE".

Now, when trying to access the site "http://localhost:34511/update.php", I get an HTTP 500 error (IIS 7) and the upgrade does not occur. The error says to check the permissions on the "web.config" but all is fine.

I need guidance to find out what else to look for to resolve this problem.

Thank you!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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JohnWSMarvin’s picture

JohnWSMarvin commented

I'm trying to upgrade 7.2 to 7.8 and installed via WebMatrix. Anyone know how to upgrade and have both Drupal and Webmatrix work fine?

johndpalm’s picture

johndpalm commented

I'm running into the same issue. WebMatrix is still at 7.2...

mastoll’s picture

mastoll commented

How have WebMatrix users successfully updated their Drupal installations?

sandro_sosa’s picture

sandro_sosa commented

A new Installation with the new CORE of Drupal 7
Download the drupal package (app. 3MB) from http://drupal.org/project/drupal
Unzip at: ...\Documents\My Web Sites\drupal-721
From Webmatrix "Open a Folder as a Site" using your new directory where you unzip the new version of Drupal Core.
Continue with the wizard... and whe WebMatrix ask you for the Database... go to your "Databases" section in Webmatrix and create manually one database... and use it to continue with the intallation...
Now, you have a new Site with the new core version of Drupal 7

I hope it helps to somebody...

Kamal Prasad’s picture

Kamal Prasad commented

Thanks a bunch!

I am using Webmatrix 3 and it did not say "Open a Folder as a Site." Just simply "Open Folder" in case someone else needs this info.

Kamal