[support] Upgrade How-To

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Mar 25 19:42:47 UTC 2008


Quoting "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom at tomholmes.net>:

> I have one Drupal site hosted at SiteGround.org.   I only have 1 node
> posted and I have done very little with this site so far.
> When I ran their Fantastico create script, it installed Drupal 5.1.
> I'm not quite ready to go to Drupal 6 yet since not all the modules I
> want to use have been re-written yet.
> So, I want to update from Drupal 5.1 to 5.7 and I know that might
> involved some database changes.
>
> So, how do I update?  I am sure there is a Wiki, or instructions on how
> to do this.
> If you can just point me in the right direction, I will attempt an
> update on my own.
> But ... is there anything I should watch out for?
>

What does admin/logs/status say about the Database Schema?  If it is 
green no update is needed.  If it is red then /update.php will do the 
trick.

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