By jessmagz on

Hi everyone!

I used to have a functional webserver with a Drupal 5.3 site in there. It was running on a Fedora Core 6 box. Now I built a new webserver on Ubuntu 7.10. The webserver is now working fine (Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL, phpAdmin).

My problem is this. I'm going to migrate my Drupal-5.3 website from the other hard disk to my new computer running Ubuntu 7.10 (a new webserver). Is it OKAY if I now install Drupal 6.2 here and then migrate my "old site"? Or should I use my old webserver (drupal-5.3) and UPGRADE to 6.2 from there?

Please advise me with this. I badly need to get that old site UP because it's almost complete!

Thanks.

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Comments

marcusthijm’s picture

marcusthijm commented

I would upgrade your old site and next move it to the new place. Check these pages out:

Next:
:-)

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jessmagz commented

Thanks!

But my real problem is this: my old site is in a separate Hard Disk. That's why I thought I'll just install Druapl 6.2 and load my Drupal 5.3 site. Is this a bad idea?

:-)

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SirKhan commented

I would also upgrade first and copy later. But be sure to backup everything just in case :)

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jessmagz commented

Hi all!

Thank you for your immediate reply. The problem with this is that my other drupal site is in another Hard Disk...another Linux box. Do you recommend that I should install the old drupal (Drupal 5.3) in my new computer, then load my old site (files and database) then upgrade to 6.2?

Isn't it feasible to install Drupal 6.2 from scratch and load my drupal 5.3 site to it?

I hope you can advise me further regarding this matter .

Thank you.