[support] Upgrade and move a site at the same time?

[Cog Rusty]

It should be fine to load the D5 database dump to the new host where
you have uploaded D6 (core files, modules and themes) and your
files/images, and then to run update.php to update the database to D6.

However, when moving to a new host there are often little differences
in the configuration which you may need to iron out. Combined with
possible problems of your upgrade, troubleshooting could become
complicated.

I think you should try that approach first, to save time. If you
encounter any problems which you can't fix, then of course you can
clear everything and try again by upgrading on the old server first.



On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> I've got a site running on drupal-5.  I want to upgrade it to drupal-6, and
> at the same time I'm also moving the site to a new hosting service.  What's
> the best strategy here?  Can I just dump my 5.x database on one host, copy
> the sql file to the other, and load it directly into my clean 6.x database?
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