By philmiller278 on

Step six says to "remove all old files and directories from the drupal installation directory". What does this mean? What files or folders? and which directory is the installation directory?

I already copied my files and sites folders to my computer. I am assuming that I am going to copy them back, right?

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philmiller278 commented

in my / I have a folder called drupal and a drupal 6.9. are they both supposed to be there?

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vm commented

you can extract the files from the drupal 6.9 folder and put them in your root, or in another folder it depends on how you want to access drupal

ie: yoursite.com or yoursite.com/drupal

therefore it is your preference that drives this decision.

if at the same level, I assume drupal is your orginal install and drupal 6.9 is your upgrade files from a 6.9 download?

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vm commented

here's the deal in a nutshell.

you are moving from 6.8 - 6.9 ?
I don't see any changes to settings.php nor default.settings.php. -- This can be seen by doing a compare of both files. The one from a new download and the one from your installation. The only line that will be different is $db_url because your install was already set up.

therefore:
delete everything EXCEPT your sites folder (then you don't have to replace it)
when I say everything I mean everything, EXCEPT the sites folder
then upload from the new download everything EXCEPT the sites folder

after that go back to your site. and run update.php in your browser

update should complete quickly and youre done.

when you read "everything in your installation folder" it means where ever you have drupal installed. It can't be assumed where you have it installed but regardless it's in a folder somehere. Even your public root (where the public can pull up your website by calling it in a browser) is a folder.

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philmiller278 commented

I am going from 6.5 to 6.9. Thought I upgraded to 6.6 but I think I installed them incorrectly that is why I have a drupal 6.6 folder.

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vm commented

you should still be fine following what I used above.

Though if you want to replace the settings.php file you can, adjust $db_url to reflect what you see in the one in the working installation. This is your DB information so that Drupal can connect to the database without asking you for location username and password all the time.

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philmiller278 commented

Thanks for the quick responses. All went well I and I learned a few things along the way too.