[support] Upgrade to Drupal 5?

[Allen Stern]

FYI - I moved my drupal site (www.centernetworks.com) from 4.7 to 5 last 
month - I was quite worried because I edited the core along with just 
tons of edits. I found the process to be painless and took about 3 hrs 
to get everything back the way I wanted it. Some tweaks to the template 
were the trickiest if I remember.

Just make sure you watch the upgrade video and back up everything!

-- Allen

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Oh, 6.0 is imminent? When is it due? Normally how frequent are new releases?
>
> Btw, thanks for the step-by-step. Very helpful. This is my first ever 
> migration.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> Ari Davidow wrote:
>   
>> Working from memory (we're in the middle of planning a similar upgrade), 
>> this isn't necessarily very complicated.
>>
>> 1. Upgrade to the last 4.7 release--that's mostly security stuff and 
>> some minor (any?) table changes. You need to do that in all cases, even 
>> if you don't go on to 5.x (but you probably want 5.x soon, since 6.0 is 
>> imminent.)
>> 2. Make sure that there are updates to all of the modules you need, or 
>> modules to which you can migrate, to meet your needs.
>> 3. Upgrade to the current 5.x . (Is there an "upgrade to 5.0" step? I 
>> don't think so, but I could be wrong. You'll want to do this on a 
>> test/dev site first, as some themes are likely to break, depending on 
>> what you have customized how.
>>
>> There seems to be some decent documentation on the drupal.org 
>> <http://drupal.org> site. Look in the "tutorials" page of the "handbook" 
>> section. Here's a useful Introduction to Upgrading: 
>> http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction
>>
>> ari
>> On 10/15/07, *Daniel Carrera* < daniel.carrera at zmsl.com 
>> <mailto:daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     I have a production website that runs on Drupal 4.7. Should I move it to
>>     Drupal 5.2?
>>
>>     I'm concerned that migrating might be difficult, might be work, or might
>>     cause downtime for my users. On the other hand, I'm concerned about
>>     staying with an old software version that might become unsupported in
>>     the future, and that migration might be more difficult later.
>>
>>     My Drupal 4.7 site has several modules added on and I figure that these
>>     might not all work in Drupal 5. My understanding is that backwards
>>     compatibility is not a development goal for Drupal. So perhaps the best
>>     way to "migrate" is to essentially re-do the website from scratch and
>>     then copy all the content from the 4.7 site.
>>
>>     I'm generally happy with Drupal 4.7. Is there any page that briefly
>>     explains what's new and exciting in Drupal 5 that might make one
>>     want to
>>     move to it?
>>
>>     Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Daniel.
>>     --
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