By mik on

upgrade from drupal 4blog to current drupal
any advice how to do that?
drupal4blog was not updated in a long time and it is getting impossible to deal with trackback spam, i hope current drupal does not have this issue coul someone confirm this please.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.5.x or older

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mik commented

bump

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sepeck commented

I forget, what version was that based off of? I would suspect that it should be doable with the standard upgrade method unless he made database changes that will catch you out..

handbooks >> Upgrading from previous versions

-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

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mik commented

Thanks a lot for replying,

i think it is based on ver 4.42 yes they are db changes

here is the link he a diff file which i dont know how to use

http://james.seng.cc/wiki/wiki.cgi?Drupal_For_Bloggers

thanks again
michael

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sepeck commented

It's do-able like I said. You're going to have to setup a test site first. Then run through the upgrade on the test site.

As it is based on 4.4, I would suggest updating to 4.5 and look at this as there is a manual step in that jump. http://drupal.org/node/43770. (The take a look at http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction)
Once at 4.5 you have two choices.
1. Try the jump to 4.7
2. Upgrade to 4.6 and then to 4.7.

Option 1, might work, less people testing it.
Option 2, more people experiences in the forums to draw off of.

You will also have to find the contrib modules and read through the upgrade instructions for each version step too. Some contrib modules will probably not have much of an update to the database at all except drop in a new module. 4.6 to 4.7 will definitly need new modules due to forms api.

Further considerations would be that there may be new functionality that makes some of the contributed modules no longer necessary. It's been a while since I've looked at the feature set for the fork so unless I spent some time looking at it I can't give you a direct answer.

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

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

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mik commented

www.WorldPerfect.org

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sepeck commented

Glad it worked out for you I did sort of wonder. :D

Keep an eye out for the feature set that will be introduced in 4.8/5.0 in a few months (no rush) to see if keeping a little closer to the lattest release will work for you. Some of the stuff going into the core now is just looking so cool.

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

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

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mik commented

here is the error i get:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /home/vivare/public_html/lubavich-it/database/updates.inc on line 1483

this is line 1483
}

// These are not part of 'theme_settings'

***1483*** $convert = array('xtemplate_avatar_default' => 'user_picture_default',

'xtemplate_mission' => 'site_mission');

foreach ($convert as $from => $to) {

if (($value = variable_get($from, NULL)) != NULL) {

variable_set($to, $value);

variable_del($from);

}

}

}

perhaps there is a module that could import posts into a new installation (i could skip the comments)?
i tried thru myadmin and could not figure it out table leayout is quite different
thanks a lot
michael
www.WorldPerfect.org