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By bigkevracer on
Hi there.
I'm currently trying to upgrade a Drupal 5 installation (5.16) to Drupal 6, however white screen of death is preventing me from carrying out all the steps in the upgrade instructions. I can't access any admin pages whatsoever, including those required to turn modules off.
I've followed all the instructions I could find on resolving WSOD and haven't been able to get this sorted, so I want to move forward with the upgrade anyway.
Is it safe to convert without turning these modules off? Is there a way to do this through the database? Or do I need to resolve WSOD first?
Thanks,
Ryan
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For anyone wondering, you can
For anyone wondering, you can do this. My upgrade went fine on both the test server and production server despite not uninstalling any modules.
I did, however, delete them from the server before I started.
I cant upgrade at all.
I have this problem, I cant upgrade at all. it redirects me to /update.php?op=info from /update.php then WSD... I have my memory set to 128MB, and I deleted all directories except the files directory. I then re-created the system.php file (set to 777) and I set the login variable to true, just in case I lost my permission to do this. I deleted all files, and then fixed my .htaccess from the new one.
I have no modules in any directory's, except Drupal 6 modules... I of course do NOT want to uninstall the modules, for this will delete all of the modules data (something I do NOT want to do)... I removed MY theme, and I did set the default theme to Garland before I installed this! I did add my php.ini file because that was were I set the memory to the high level. My site uses a ton of modules and I am really not looking forword to this. It has proven me right, and I am completely miserable, and I haven't even seen a screen show up!
No data in system log files as to what is happening, and I cant find a single clue. Maybe I am not looking in the right place, maybe I am blind, I do not know!
Did you check that the memory
Did you check that the memory is correctly set to 128MB? I had this issue at one point, and there were so many active php.ini files that I had to get the right one.
Make a new page, set the filter to PHP and call the php_info function. You'll get a page of php info, making it easy to check if the memory is set properly!