By calebgilbert on

Hello all,

I got lucky and found an web host that has this cPanel add-on called Fantasico, which will fully install Drupal at a click of a one button (!). It was totally cool, except I don't know which version of Drupal I'm running (e.g, 4.5.2 vs. CVS). Can anyone tell me what to look for?

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gncuster’s picture

gncuster commented

check the version titles in the files themselves on the server. You do have command line access right?

Steven Mansour’s picture

Steven Mansour commented

Is there a CHANGELOG.txt file in the root? Version info is in there.

calebgilbert’s picture

calebgilbert commented

Thanks guys, Changelog did it for me (didn't check the other one). Namaste.

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graeme@graemef.com’s picture

graeme@graemef.com commented

It'd be nice if you could see that sort of information in the admin interface somewhere.

tostinni’s picture

tostinni commented

Yes I also like to see this somewhere, and maybe for modules too...

pdinnen’s picture

pdinnen commented

I'm using Cpanel (10.2.0) with Fantastico. I can see the version number of the Drupal install on my server by logging into Cpanel and going to Fantastico > Installations Overview.

TheoGB’s picture

TheoGB commented

Yup, that's how I know.

Here's a question I asked AGES ago.

It gives you the option to upgrade, but I tried it once when my site was having teething troubles (PHP borked by the hosters) and it wiped the database.

Luckily I got it back but I need to know if I can do the upgrade without losing all my data and stuff....

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sepeck commented

Yes. Don't use Fantastico for the upgrade. There is stuff you have to do when you upgrade a Drupal installation and any Fantastico installer for Drupal is not configured or released by drupal.org developers. There is a reason for this. :) While upgrades can be easy, due to the extensible nature of Drupal, no automated installer can really account for more than a core install upgrade and there are some specific manual steps to be taken when you do update your site.

-sp
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Test site...always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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TheoGB commented

Okay cheers.

So the only way to do it is to back up the database to my home machine, install my version of Drupal to my home machine (running Apache and PHP), upgrade that then copy the database back to the fantastico upgrade?

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sepeck commented

I don't know that it;s the only way, but certainly upgrading it on a test system first is certainly a better way to avoid blowing up your production site and then posting paniced forum questions about how to recover your site/database/last year of content..... :)

It why I originally wrote the Best Practices stuff. To help avoid the panic'd questions that might have been avoided. This way, you have a known good backup, you have practice and knowledge restoring your site. You have confidence and knowledge that your site will be restorable if things don't go well. If you are going to use a CMS, you really need to learn it. It's not that hard, it's just something that needs to be done. Then you can switch all your buddies sites over and charge them to help :)

-sp
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Test site...always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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TheoGB commented

Yeah, unfortunately I can't get 'down and dirty' on my site unless I get SSL. I have to use PHP My Admin to do some stuff and Cpanel for the rest. I think everything is possible but it's like the old days when you'd rather do stuff in DOS than Win 3.1.

I can't get SSL without photocopying my passport and faxing that through to them, which I'm not wild about doing, to be honest. :-D

I'll have a try. I need to re-format my computer too, really. Oh well...