By enthusaroo on
Hello
Today I upgraded my old Drupal 5 installation to 5.19. In doing so I also figured that I may as well upgrade it to version 6. So I downloaded Drupal 6.13 and followed the directions to a tee (logging in as "master" user, removing old files, etc.) before copying my old /site and /files folders.
Now when I go to mysite.com/update.php it forwards to mysite.com/install.php instead.
So I'm stumped why this is happening and I've been trying to find a way to just get it to update the database from 5 to 6 all day.
Can anyone help advise about what could be going wrong?
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Are you sure you've retained your settings.php?
Drupal should only do an install if the settings.php file is the same as the supplied default.settings.php
Pete.
Hi Pete, Yes... I backed up
Hi Pete,
Yes... I backed up my settings.php file from Drupal 5 then copied this file to the /sites directory.
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Hmm.
I'm currently having the same nightmare... update.php is failing horribly!
I'll read the documentation then try again.
Pete.
Upgrading from Drupal 5 to 6
I have had the lovely experience of doing about six Drupal 5 to 6 upgrades and I have put together a set of directions that might help you. You can view the steps I use to upgrade from 5 to 6 at http://www.ishmaelsanchez.com/files/pdf/upgrading-drupal5-drupal6.pdf.
Good luck
Upgrading from Drupal 5 to 6
Have the same problem when the folder "sites/default" permissions are set to read only thsi happens when you leave delete permissions on the site runs fine... but this is a security risk and it would not be optional...
Hi, In addition to
Hi,
In addition to http://drupal.org/node/553782#comment-1946788, thanks for nice list, before 1:
get the whole site to all newest production releases of all modules. So with the most stable Drupal 5 site the upgrade starts. Off course update.php before upgrading process.
greetings, Martijn