By mirjam on

Hi all,

I'm trying to upgrade from Drupal 5.20 to 6.14 (already upgraded from a previous 5.x version to 5.20). After I've copied all Drupal 6 files to the right directory, and I'm navigating to my website to login (/?q=user), it's starting a whole new installation of Drupal (/install.php?profile=default), instead of an upgrade. Also when I'm navigating to /upgrade.php, the new installation starts.

Can somebody help me how to fix this? To be sure I didn't loose everything, I've just put everything back to version 5.20, but of course eventually I want to upgrade to 6 :-p.

Thanks!
Mirjam

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vm commented

did you add your DB connection string to settings.php? after you copied default.setting.php and renamed it settings.php?

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mirjam commented

What do you mean with the "DB connection string" (sorry, I'm not that advanced ;-))? I copied the settings.php file (and renamed it after that), do I need to do something else?

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vm commented

during installation drupal collects from you the necessary information to connect to the database. It then writes this information into the $db_url string in settings.php. If you've already created a site and you want the site to connect to the old database you must enter the information required into $db_url manually.

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mirjam commented

Thanks for your help, it worked!