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Upgrading from Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x

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Submitted by greggles on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 13:00
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This video tutorial discuss the upgrading process of your Drupal site. In order to fix security issues and take advantage of many new features, upgrading your Drupal site to Drupal 6 is recommended.

Special note: Users of Drupal 5 update_status module have to disable and uninstall update_status before upgrading to Drupal 6 (this is demonstrated in the video)!

Additional resources:

Click here to watch the screencast!

You can download the screencast here.
Unzip the files, then double click on PLAY.html.

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Comments

Thanks for a very clear and

Submitted by Thomasr976 (not verified) on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 16:18.

Thanks for a very clear and well done video. I have Drupal 5.3 installed on XAMPP, so updating to Drupal 6.0 on my laptop is covered by your video.

Once I update my test site to version 6 on XAMPP, what would be the best approach to getting it installed on my host's server? Is it as simple as copying my htdocs folder to the server using FTP or is there some other method.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

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Submitted by Drupal 6 Now Available « Tech Ticker (not verified) on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 22:27.
[...] View the screencast page. [...]

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Submitted by Drupal 6.0 update issues | Martin Crockett (not verified) on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 19:26.
[...] watched a very good screencast Upgrading from 5.x to 6.x by Greg Knaddison and taken a number of notes from it [...]

Very helpful. The

Submitted by John Kenney (not verified) on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 19:45.

Very helpful. The step-by-step made things go very smoothly.

Installing Drupal 6 video

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 11:38.

We have also a video on how to install Drupal 6. But this one video is in Hungarian, so if you don't speak Hungarian you won't understand it :)

But Lullabot has an English video about installing:
http://www.lullabot.com/videocasts/installing-drupal-6

Thanks - One problem but I got it to work

Submitted by Wavesailor (not verified) on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 06:00.

Thanks Greg - This made life easier for me. I tried what you mentioned on a Windows install under IIS. It had one problem and about query not running which I think was number 3091. But nevertheless I just reran update.php and everything went through okay.

Thanks for great help!!!

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Submitted by Virtually Anything » Blog Archive » Drup (not verified) on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 03:25.
[...] Here’s a video about how to upgrade: http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/upgrading-to-drupal-6 [...]

A very nice informative

Submitted by John Neal (not verified) on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 08:55.

A very nice informative article / post. I have been interested in this topic and found your comments spot on. I points in the second paragraph were of particular interest to me.

Learning more

Submitted by Keith (not verified) on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 20:04.

I saved to favs the screencast look forward to watching it later when my internet works better grrr

Thanks for the post.

Submitted by Ulrich (not verified) on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 01:15.

Thanks for the post.

Thanks for the post. I've

Submitted by Inkjet (not verified) on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 17:49.

Thanks for the post. I've been searching high and low for this info and finally found what I was looking for!

Cheers!

Dear God!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 05/03/2008 - 15:14.

I'm going to pretend I never saw that. Seriously. Deleting all of the drupal core files out of your running server? You've got to be kidding. Nice way to plan for a rollback. This video shows a good recipe for killing any business you may have when things don't go quite as well as greggles' "couple of modules that he knows will work nicely". Never mind, at least I saw the theory.

Backup

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 10:40.

That's why you make backup first. If you have a working backup, you can fix any problems during the upgrade.

Get a Grip!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 15:22.

You've made backups (as already noted)... And Greg indicates that you might want to use a test server -- and if you have a business you are afraid of killing and you don't have a STAGING server with CVS connectivity then you deserve to have your business killed.

As Martin Luther said, "Sin boldly so that G-d will notice." ... how else will you learn?

I recommend that Mastering Drupal produce a video showing a restrore from backup -- both via CVS and simpler copy-over along with the MySQL reinstall. Indeed, include more discussion of "DROP" and "IF EXISTS" option for the backups.

Overall, I encourage that everyone (unless you are already a professional dba/webmaster) include these two steps to any major installation/upgrade:
1. Take a backup
2. Restore from that backup.
If you don't, when you need to restore you'll be terrified to do so.

dear anonymous :p

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Submitted by greggles on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 23:43.

You're pretty quick to criticize for someone who doesn't even put their name on the comment...

As I mentioned in the video, doing the upgrade the way that I suggest will guarantee that there are no stale old files on the server. Files tend to get moved/renamed between big changes like 5.x and 6.x.

Also, you mention how this will destroy a "running server." You do your major version upgrades during a planned maintenance window, right? So...it's not running at that point, right?

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Thanks for the heads up

Submitted by Mehmet Onatli (not verified) on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 13:23.

Thanks for the heads up guys, I'll definitely be coming back here to bounce any questions I may have :)

thanks Greg

Submitted by Food Monster (not verified) on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 20:44.

The video was clear enough for me to follow, and I am a newb (of sorts)

Many thanks

Really helpful! Thanks a

Submitted by Luca (not verified) on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 13:17.

Really helpful!
Thanks a lot, Greg!

Drupal Upgrading made easy!

Submitted by Biofuel Blog Boy (not verified) on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 05:55.

I really appreciate the assistance and the vid. The idiot "anon" commenter above is a fool. A good backup is key before doing a big upgrade and your rec. to remove all files is the proper way. Thanks again. -BBB

thanks for the video

Submitted by richard101 (not verified) on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 12:11.

Thanks for the video that walked my through upgrading 5.1 to 6.4 - worked well (fyi: the only issue I had was I lost the display of all my taxonomy terms - although there were still there - the fix was typing 'taxonmy/term/1' then 2,3 etc noteing what group was returned - and (in another screen) creating a fresh term with that name/path).

The only thing I miss from 5.x it that taxonomy-dhtlm displayed how many items were in each taxonomy term - eg: 'Linux (3)'

quick-question - do you happen to know how I get my picture by every blog entry (like in a forum)?

Screencast in Firefox

Submitted by Greg (not verified) on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 13:23.

Thanks - was a useful sanity check before proceeding. :-)

BTW, I couldn't play this in Firefox. Don't know if anyone else had issues? It's too slow and jerky - like the Firefox Flash plug-in can't handle it.

What player is that for the screencast?

Submitted by btopro (not verified) on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 16:03.

What player is that? We do a lot of instructional videos and things as part of courseware and that'd be a great way of handling presentation materials.

Moving blogs and Forums from Drupal 5 to 6

Submitted by Netzarim (not verified) on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 00:55.

I tried the upgrade and was not successful, many problems with database and module conflicts.

I decided to build a new site from scratch, before working through all the issues, and then migrate the blogs, forums, and users from the Drupal 5 in to Drupal 6.

Is there a simplistic method for doing this?

Actually helpful!

Submitted by Cliff Harris (not verified) on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 21:00.

Great job with the video that helped me (Mr. Non-techie) get the ver 6 upgrade done! I appreciate it. -CH

Great Video!

Submitted by Jake Strawn (not verified) on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 05:34.

I've installed and set up countless Drupal 6 sites already, but am undertaking my first real upgrade from Drupal 5 to 6 on a major site, and wanted to get some basic information and warnings on what to look for, what not to do, etc.

This was a great video, clear, concise, and to the point.

All hail fellow Denver area Drupal Devs!!

Fantastico

Submitted by Les (not verified) on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 05:37.

I am a little dumb when it comes to upgrades - I was wondering if anyone had used to Fantastico to do an auto upgrade?

cheers
les

Your video and help is appreciated!

Submitted by Alan Diaz (not verified) on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 09:38.

No other site I found was as helpful as yours has been to me. I appreciate the tutorial and your like you said, removing all files is the proper way! Thanks again - Alan

Retro-grading from D6 to D5!

Submitted by decibel.places (not verified) on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 14:13.

Sometimes you realize you made the "wrong" decision building in D6 and you gotta have modules etc. only available in D5

I recently retrograded a site back to D5 to add CiviCRM only to discover that CiviCRM 2.1.1 now works with D6 - :DOH:

Anyway, here is how I did it, using the Backup and Migrate module, and had to manually add a few fields to the db...

http://drupal.org/node/320099

Thanks a lot

Submitted by Rahul (not verified) on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 08:14.

thanks buddy nice article and video ............ helped a lot in upgrading my site..... on localhost.

Thank You so Much!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 20:28.

Thanks for this video. :-) I'm upgrading 6.4 to 6.12 and was successful! I tried upgrading with the README file and missed some things so your video really helped out the second time around.

Nice one

Submitted by Michael Loughlin (not verified) on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 08:54.

Thanks for the screen cast - clear and concise. Good stuff!

Nice, but...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 20:37.

That video is really nice for installing v6.xx directly on your "production" server.

But... If I need to test it on a "develpment" server, what I have to do? I have hereditated a site to mantain and I don't trust to make such "one-shot" installation. The DB backup would recover ALL data in that webiste? Sorry for my newbie questions... Thanks

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Submitted by Alex's Blog » Upgrade Drupal from 5.x to (not verified) on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 14:01.
[...] from 5.x to the latest 6.x version of Drupal. Most of what I did followed the instructions found in this screencast by greggles – watch it from start to finish, making notes where [...]

Good screencast, is it ok if

Submitted by Mike (not verified) on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 06:14.

Good screencast, is it ok if I download it. This would be cool to show our customers who are new with Drupal. I guess linking it would be good to. geld verdienen Best regards Mike

Thanks

Submitted by Martin (not verified) on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 00:55.

It was very helpful, great guys

Upgrade status module is very helpful

Submitted by Bogdan (not verified) on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 12:22.

With "upgrade status" module, it's a breeze to both check if all the modules are available in the next version you want to upgrade to, and to download all those versions.

Nice post. Very informative.

Submitted by Tanaaz (not verified) on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 02:15.

Nice post. Very informative. Learnt a lot on how I can update my site. The video was especially useful, makes the understanding part very simple!

Drupal

Submitted by annasiegfried on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 14:48.

Here is something that could help people out: Drupal content management systems. Drupal can be very tricky for people that don't have at least basic programming knowledge. So I recommend reading all the info you can before proceeding.

Good

Submitted by oddscompiler on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 12:49.

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks to the screencast I was able to make my upload pretty quick and safe. What else do you also use except for drupal? Would appreciate an answer.

BTW, how did you manage to insert the starbucks intro in the video file?

Thanks and please keep up the good work!

Regards,

Alin,

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