By Melkor on

Hello,

I have a site on Drupal 5.0 by now I want to upgrade it to latest Drupal (6.3). I am following the upgrade instructions carefully but I have various errors like

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user warning: Table 'drupal_63.menu_router' doesn't exist query: SELECT * FROM menu_router WHERE path IN ('frontpage') ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1 in /var/www/html/test_63/includes/menu.inc on line 315.
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at the "Overview" step

or

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function taxonomy_get_vocabularies() in /var/www/html/test_63/modules/forum/forum.install on line 112

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at "Run updates step"

Is there any chance to successfully upgrade my installation to 6.3 in one step or I should upgrade it from release to release like 5.0->5.1->5.2->...->6.2->6.3 ?

Or I should upgrade it manually?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards.

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zeta ζ commented

I think there is an instruction somewhere telling you to upgrade to the latest 5.x release first (ie. 5.8) before jumping to 6.x.

Also 5.3 was a bit different, having some particular issues – so you might want to do 5.0->5.3->5.8->6.3 at least.
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Melkor commented

Thank you for reply

Will try and post the results here

Kind regards

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Melkor commented

Thanks for your help.

I have successfully upgrade Drupal to 6.3. The upgrade path was 5.0->5.3->5.8->6.0->6.3

I have experienced only minor issues which seems to be related to contrib modules.

All the best

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baxterjones commented

hi,
i also want to upgrade my drupal version from 5.0 to 6.4 (latest), i read the posts up top, but i can't seem to find the earlier releases from drupal 5.x.

i need help finding those releases so i can upgrade.

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baxterjones commented

sorry, me being stupid.

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baxterjones commented

i went from 5.0 to 6.4 in a few easy steps. although a little different, i had no problems whatsoever (5.0>5.3>5.8>5.10>6.2>6.4>)
here they are:
step 1. backup database and all files, pu site into offline mode "maintenance mode"
step 2. disable contrib modules (first check if the module you are using are available for the version of drupal you're updating to)
step 3. remove all folders and files that don't contain site data
step 4. copy all files from first distribution (5.3) and overwrite any files and folders
step 5. continue installation (entering database info - for the settings file)
step 6. go to http://siteurl/upgrade.php... follow onscreen instructions
step 7. go through steps 3 - 6 until you have reached the version you want
step 8. find all updated modules paste into "sites/all/modules" folder, do same if you are using a different theme.
step 9. take site out of offline mode.
step 10. smile

note: if your site is offline, and you have logged out then simply go to your siteurl/?q=user and enter admin username and pass there. all should be well.