By redrider on
I have managed to install this upgrade and I had a horrible time of it but after I got it figured out, it only took about 10 min.
Here is what I had to do.
I made sure my site and all it's modules are up to date and you run update.php BEFORE I did this upgrade.
After my site was updated, I did a database backup (very important).
I then deleted everything but themes, sites, .htaccess, robots and non-Drupal related stuff and then just uploaded the new package and ran update.php again.
Of course there were be modules to update - my site works fine now.
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Could you please provide details about the upgrate to 6.19?
I follow your suggestions to upgrade 6.16 to 6.19. it seems do not work in my case.
After put the site off-line, I keep the sites, themes, .htaccess and robots.txt, all other things were deleted under the directory of public_html.
upload the files from 6.19 package under directory of public_html.
update php, then the version is still 6.16.
I also do the upgrade following the instruction from the package of 6.19, it did not work.
I am not sure what to do.
Thank you very much!
I don't don't know about
I don't don't know about going from 6.16 to 6.19 as I've never made that big of a jump before.
You could try going from 6.16 to 6.17 and then to 6.19 but it should work from 6.16 to 6.19 ok anyway
Do you have a backup of your database and site?
I had to restore my site back to 6.17 and do it again after I made sure all the modules were up to date and the update.php script ran again and then I ran cron just to be sure.
After the site was up to date, I deleted everything except "sites" then I uploaded 6.19 again, all of, just like it was a new site - it will look like it wants to install but as soon as you tell it your database name, database user name and database password, it just went to the "existing site already installed" screen.
Then I just uploaded all the old files (.htaccess, robots, page_tpl.php and style.css) and I was good to go.
I was very frustrated and just about switched to Wordpress.
I upgraded one site yesterday
I upgraded one site yesterday from 6.14 to 6.19 with no problems. Just as smooth as any other version upgrades though i was prepared to spend more time.
One of the reasons it is still showing old version is probably core files didn't get updated. Check modules\system\system.module file, it should say like this:
define('VERSION', '6.19');Your site still shows you an
Your site still shows you an old version because old core files are still in use. See http://heine.familiedeelstra.com/drupal-shows-old-version-after-update for possible causes.
I wrote a minimal minor version upgrade guide on http://drupal.org/node/881228#comment-3319314
Upgrading 6.10 to 6.19
I've been only working with Drupal for a few weeks, I inherited the site that hasn't been maintained. I'm getting numb. I requested/required to get this done, guess what its a ASAP. They want a use the Acquia Prosper theme that requires the update!
This weekend I tried to update and everything was lost...I had uploaded the entire site as the old version...back to square 1.
I did everything I read about...kept the sites folder and robots (the .htaccess file is within the sites folder)...etc.
However when reading that I should make other updates like modules and CCK...don't they automatically update with the upload of 6.19? I counted 8 security required updates and 11 updates available.
I just need help or at least pointed in the right direction!
Thank You all for any and all help!
No, modules don't get updated
No, modules don't get updated with core update. You will need to upgrade modules separately, but all the process is painless. Modules will go to /sites/all/modules where as core goes to the root folder.
Is your version showing 6.19? Then your core upgrade was successful, just upload the new modules to /sites/all/modules and run update.php.
Note: upgrading modules in Drupal 7 support one click install like wordpress, which will be an awesome feature.