By btmash on

Hi all,

I'm in the process of upgrading a site that used Drupal 4.6.6 to Drupal 6.0. To try and ease the process, I've upgraded most of the modules we used to drupal 6.0 (and will finish doing so either by converting myself or converting the code to use a contributed module by the time the site relaunches) - however, my question concerns the core set of modules which have gone through significant changes. Does anyone have any ideas on how to upgrade the database tables to the new structure?

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rernst commented

After disabling your contrib modules, you should probably first upgrade to 4.7, apply the core upgrades there, then to the latest 5.x version, then finally 6. Step-by-step is probably the best way to go.

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rernst commented

this probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyhow: make a full backup of the site at each step :)

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btmash commented

Haha, thanks a lot :)

In the upgrades from 4.7, so I'd basically go through each step (4.7.1, 4.7.2, ...., till 5.1, and so forth till 6.0)?

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rernst commented

just start with 4.7, then upgrade directly to 5.7. Of course, keep a backup and if something doesn't go well, try 4.6 -> 4.7 -> 5.0 -> 5.7

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btmash commented

Thanks again for your reply. I'm going to be attempting the upgrades soon (and just pray, heh).

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btmash commented

Just if anyone was wondering, I finally built up courage to give it a try today and the path **should** be 4.6 -> 4.7 -> 5.0 -> 5.7 (the path directly from 4.7 -> 5.7 does not build the cache_* tables and so I'm guess it probably missed some other steps in between.