By amyewinter on

Rank beginner here (my experience is with Wordpress & Joomla!). I have a CD from a client of an old site made by someone else, old site no longer in existence, which I believe was built with Drupal 5.7. CD has 2 files: xxx.tgz and xxxdb.tgz. When I unpack these files with 7-zip, I get two .tar files with the same names. When I unpack those, I get lots of files, including a folder called "drupal 5.7" (hence my belief above).

What I want to do is just get the content out of the old site. The client's current web host doesn't support Drupal so we will decide what to do with the content later, if it can be extracted from the files on CD. I don't think it was a very big or complicated site, at all. Should I just install Drupal 5.7 from the folder that is on the CD? (I am reluctant to do this because I hear that this version will be incompatible with my installed version of XAMPP.) Is there a way to unpack the existing site/db into a new install of Drupal? I have had miserable FAIL trying to do this very thing using Wordpress in the past.

I have poked around quite a bit in the documentation, support and forums, but couldn't seem to find anything that addresses my specific situation -- partly because I'm not even sure what the files I have ARE. Are they a backup of the old site, such that I could use the backup/migrate process into a newer version of Drupal?

Any advice would be appreciated. I don't expect specific instructions, but anyone who could point me in the right direction to do more research will win my undying gratitude.

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AdrianC-1 commented

The xxx.tgz file is the files from the web server's directory, whilst the xxxdb.tgz is the database dump.

All you should need to do, in order to get it up & kicking, is to unpack the files to a web server, then have a look at the config file (I'll let somebody else figure where it is in D5) and find the database setup details. Then create the database, grant the right privileges and import the .sql file that undoubtedly lurks within that archive.

Once you've got it up'n'kicking as D5.7, you'll probably be best to take it straight(ish) to D5.22 and the current versions of whatever modules are in use. Then you've got a decent base for an upgrade to D6.