Finalize the upgrade

Last updated April 13, 2010. Created by binodc on November 9, 2005.
Edited by LeeHunter, bekasu, add1sun, AjK. Log in to edit this page.

Congratulations! You have completely upgraded your Drupal installation.

Depending on your site, you may need to log in using the following URL: http://example.com/?q=user

You should now go to your administer > site building > modules page and enable new modules from your upgrade. Be sure to then go to administer > user management > access control to enable permissions to use that module for different roles.

The last step in an upgrade is to delete or move the following files from your site:

• install.php
• CHANGELOG.txt
• INSTALL.txt
• INSTALL.mysql.txt
• INSTALL.pgsql.txt
• LICENSE.txt
• MAINTAINERS.txt
• UPGRADE.txt

If you have upgraded a test site and are satisfied with the results, you will now need to copy the test site to a live site.

If you have more questions, please consult the Troubleshooting FAQ guide or ask for help in the forums.

Another post-upgrade task -- re-index search!

After upgrading from 4.7 to 5.7, several terms returned no search results, but it was difficult to could confirm which were present in nodes in the site.

Re-indexing the search by clicking the re-index button as well as changing the search settings to index 100 pages at a time helped clear up the issue. Next, click the run cron now link in status report several times until 100% of the site is indexed.