By kevinbroome on

hi,

On my test domain i've copied my production drupal 5.x install with content and all works fine..

When i upgrade this to drupal 6.x all my content has gone! Is this normal?

or do i now need to export content from 5.x to 6.x somehow? I've had a look at backup&migrate but not sure it would be for this job? or have i just forgot to do something?!

i don't fancy copy & pasting all the content and adjusting the publish dates etc...

ps i've got the same modules installed and all the 5.x mods were the newest.

thanks in advance :)
kev.

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kevinbroome’s picture

kevinbroome commented

bump!

sunset_bill’s picture

sunset_bill commented

Having just done my first D5->D6, first question is, you're not seeing any of your content when you go to Content Management > Content? What type of content (text, images)? Next would be are you using CCK and Views?

kevinbroome’s picture

kevinbroome commented

thanks for the reply.

No, i'm not seeing any content in Home › Administer › Content management but in my old production site there were a few hundred nodes. I tried the upgrade a few times with the same result. I'll try again today and see post what happens!

kevinbroome’s picture

kevinbroome commented

I'm not sure what was happening when I tried to upgrade last time.

anyway, here's what i did which worked in case it helps anyone else:

1. backup DB on drupal 5
2. upload lastest drupal 6 files to new test server
3. rename default.settings.php to settings.php
4. import the old 5 DB into a new test DB
5. edit settings.php and input the connection settings for the new test DB
6. change $update_free_access = FALSE; in settings.php to TRUE
7. run update.php as per instructions....

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vincent sg commented

Do you still have a backup of the functioning 5.x database?

Do you use the Content Constrution Kit module?
Upgrade instructions for this module: http://drupal.org/project/cck