[support] moving site from Drupal 6 to 5 (reverse upgrade)

[Metzler, David]

Generally I wouldn't advise going back.   Rather consider setting up a
new 5.x site and use copy/paste to move the content from one site to
another.   Downgrades are unsupported there's all kinds of dragons
there. 

 

I don't know what the timeline is for views and cck, but I wouldn't
advise using the betas on an important site yet cause of the heavy
rewrite of views in this module.

 

Also remember that because views is a rewrite with no "backward
compatibility"  any work that you do in 5.x will need to be redone in 6.
Depending on your drupal experience, you may want to factor this into
your decision.  Expect to need to rewrite all of the views that you do
in 5.x when you do finally move to 6.  That's a pretty good reason to
consider waiting till the 6.x modules are available.  

 

I wouldn't think using 6.x views is advisable in the may timeframe, but
if the beta does come out within the next few days, then September is
probably a completely different story.

 

Hope that helps, 

 

Good luck, 

 

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Jean Gazis
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:08 AM
To: support
Subject: [support] moving site from Drupal 6 to 5 (reverse upgrade)

 

I have a site (www.kidsplaytunes.org) that was recently set up, just
after we installed D6, so I set it up in 6. But given that some
important modules are not yet available for 6, I was thinking of moving
it back to 5. How hard would it be to do that? The main (CCK & Views)
mods for 6 are due out in beta any day, but a) I don't know if that will
be everything we'll need, and b) that means using beta mods on a
production site.

KPT is currently not using any contrib mods at all, so the only
customization is the CSS, and the content is pretty minimal.  

My sysadmin says "we could try to go back, but I don't know how
compatible are the database structures between 5 and 6." 

How advisable and or difficult would it be to do this, or am I better
off just trying to wait/work ith the D6 modules as they come out?

The first event that might generate a lot of site interest is May 13,
and it wil need to have seom community functionality by September 2008.
-- 
Jean Gazis
www.jeangazis.com
www.boxofrain.us
www.kidsplaytunes.org

"I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas. I'm afraid of
the old ones."
- John Cage 

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