By SanaStyle on

Hello

I have a website which currently runs on drupal 4.3.x and i want to upgrade it to 4.7.x. i need imformation on hoe to go about it. what the best possible way to do it? and i have read thru drupal.org that to upgrade we ned to upgrade version by version. from 4.3 to 4.4 then to 4.5 and the to 4.6 and then 4.7. is it true?

and is drupal 4.4 avaialble here or dupral.org? is there any easy way to upgrade ?

Thanks

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Ernest-1’s picture

Ernest-1 commented

I have the same problem. It would take months to rebuild my site from scratch -I have almost 800 images, for example. Plus, I'm using the Polder theme which doesn't appear to be supported in the newer versions of Drupal. Are the older versions available, so that I could go through a step by step upgrade?

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hba commented

The best way is probably to upgrade carefully through each version, and testing between each upgrade.

Versions from 4.5 and up are available as tarballs from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/

Older versions can be fetched from CVS. In a unix/linux shell, it's done like this (here I fetch v4.3 and v4.4):

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal login   (password 'anonymous')

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal export -r DRUPAL-4-3 drupal 
mv drupal drupal-4.3

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal export -r DRUPAL-4-4 drupal 
mv drupal drupal-4.4

More info on CVS (also with Mac OSX and Windows CVS clients) in the Drupal guide: http://drupal.org/repos

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sepeck commented

I would pull the versions of Drupal you need from CVS. You will need to download by branch tag.

Check out this section of the handbook
Upgrading from previous versions

It doesn't have 4.3 to 4.4, but the 4.4 to 4.5 has a manual table creation step in there you need to do. I would suggest 4.3 -> 4.4.0 -> 4.4.0 -> 4.5.0 -> 4.6.0 -> 4.7.0

back up your db at each step.
test.
Check your contrib modules availability. Some contrib modules have upgrade scripts/instructions as well. For instance, image module from 4.5 -> 4.6 has an update script that must be preciously followed.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide