Morning folks,
Looking for a piece of advice - my main experience of CMS has been joomla but have agreed to help a friend in a bit of a hole with a website.
They experienced a hack in mid 2012 which has appeared to have broken the back-end functionality. When logging in with the administrator account www.
.com/q?=user they get a white screen of death and are were unable to add new content.
I have managed to resolve this so they can now add content but the site is very very ropey.. constant "Too Many Connections" Sql messages and the majority of the backend features still result in WSOD.. they can now add articles so they are out of their immediate hole.
I now have to take them forward and wondered if I would be best upgrading the site to Drupal 7 or wiping it and starting a new.. The problem lies with the 10 years of articles when considering a new site.
Would anyone be able to offer their advice or point me in the direction of FAQ's going from 4.6x to 7..
Many thanks
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Honestly, I would start with
Honestly, I would start with a clean install of Drupal 7 and import the data somehow... but how is a bit of a problem.
You might consider, if at all possible, doing a 4.6 to Drupal 5 upgrade, then using the Migrate module - http://drupal.org/project/migrate to bring the data into Drupal 7.
Also, take a look at quicksketch's article and module for a direct D5 -> D7 migration
http://quicksketch.org/node/5739
And then finally, if you have or can create the feeds you need you could try the feeds module, which doesn't require any compatibility per se, but will require a fair bit of prep - http://drupal.org/project/feeds
So much has changed between Drupal 4.6 and Drupal 7, it's hard to even think of them as the same system - FormAPI, DB abstraction, Fields in core, and on and on... But if you have relatively simple content types on the D4 site, you could bring in the node data without too much trouble I think.