Hi Everyone,

Relatively new to Drupal. Started off with a project which demands for Social networking and Community Modules. I had been using the Drupal 6.4 version, until i found that this version does not provide much support to what i want.

Drupal version 5 has relatively more modules(recommended) than the version i've been using and hence want to switch to the version 5. Forums read a lot about the upgrading. How exactly can i Degrade my Drupal from Version 6.4 to 5.x ?

Eagerly waiting for replies and Thanks in Advance.

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marcvangend’s picture

I've never downgraded a site from D6 to D5, but speaking from my knowledge about upgrading, a true downgrade would be a lot of work. I think the best method would be to rebuild your site (Drupal core, modules, configuration, content types, views etc.) from scratch with D5. Next you can export and import your content (if there is content already). Finally, if you have created a custom theme, you can probably manually convert it to a D5 theme, using the upgrade guide (http://drupal.org/node/132442) as a reverse-engineering guideline.

One more thing to consider: Depending on your site, the modules you need and your php skills, porting a certain D5 module to D6 may be a lot less work than downgrading your site. This way you can keep all advantages of Drupal 6, CCK 2, Views 2 and so on (and you'll be able to give something back to the community!). The Coder and Deadwood modules can help you with porting modules, and so can this Lullabot videocast: http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/porting-drupal-modules.

vigneshr35’s picture

What you had suggested was what exactly i had to do finally. First tried to use the same database for the new version of Drupal. Later , tried merging the tables of the new and the older version to have the site set up on the new version staight up. But that invoked the famous, menu.inc (line 315 error) on my older version. More about that error here http://drupal.org/node/291207.

Then Re installed the new version and started from scratch to get the site going on the new version.Took me nice half day to update things. Thanks for the suggestion.