By TonyV on

Help!! I was in the process of upgrading my site to D6 from D5, and some things went wrong. So now all I'm trying to do is get my backed up D5 site up and running again. I've put back all my saved files. I've put back my backed-up database and am pointing to it. So I would expect to see a generally functioning site.

Instead, NOTHING comes up. I can't run update.php. I can't browse to any pages. I get total white screens. These are the errors that I see in Apache:

[Sat Feb 13 00:39:48 2010] [error] [client 98.226.68.239] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function drupal_bootstrap() in D:\\Apache\\htdocs\\update.php on line 589
[Sat Feb 13 00:39:53 2010] [error] [client 98.226.68.239] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function drupal_bootstrap() in D:\\Apache\\htdocs\\index.php on line 13
[Sat Feb 13 00:44:08 2010] [error] [client 65.55.106.110] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function drupal_bootstrap() in D:\\Apache\\htdocs\\index.php on line 13

I have searched extensively but can't seem to find any relevant posts. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks very much. By the way, I've tried several times to get this going, and with no luck.

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ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

Just a quick guess, you are seeing these errors because drupal is not fully uploaded, I would re-upload Drupal files and try again.

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TonyV commented

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try that, although I feel like I've tried that a few times now. But maybe I'm overlooking something.

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

I think you are, but its hard to tell without more info. Are you installing into a sub directory? Is the path correct in the setting php ?

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TonyV commented

Thanks so much for your input. It DID turn out that I was missing at least part of a couple include files in Drupal core. What's interesting is that the backup of all my files was to blame. I must have had a couple minor ftp errors while backing up all my files, but I didn't notice them. From here on out I'm going to sift through the ftp reports much more thoroughly.

Once I figured out that my backup was bad, I was able to find and test (locally) a previous set of backed up files. This worked and so I endevoured to push those files back up to the live site. Amazingly, that upload too had very minor errors in it. I finally had to open up the includes directory and push up each file one at a time. This finally showed me which files weren't uploading properly.

Any way, the site is back up and running. Scary!!!! Thank you so much for your help.

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ludo1960 commented

Happy ending, well done Tony!

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MichaelCole commented

Ran into this with a debugger session open. The files were there, but not being included correctly.

Restarting the web server fixed it.

sudo apache2ctl restart