[support] Upgrading Issue

[Ross Bundy]

Hi,

I'm new to Drupal. I installed Drupal 7.2 on Windows a few weeks ago. 
Once I saw the security alert for 7.2 and .3, I've been trying to 
upgrade to 7.4. However, I must be missing something basic.

I've tried following the upgrading instructions in the UPGRADE.txt file 
that came with the 7.4 release. I get to step 6, "Run update.php ...," 
but I'm not able to successfully complete the update. I get to the 
"Review updates" page, but it says "No pending updates," and there is no 
button to continue to the "Run updates" step. I've even tried setting 
"$update_free_access = TRUE;" in the "settings.php" file, think that 
this might help.

Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

The instructions from the UPGRADE.txt file are below.

Thanks,
--ross

----------------------------
MINOR VERSION UPDATES
---------------------
To update from one minor 7.x version of Drupal to any later 7.x version, 
after
following the instructions in the INTRODUCTION section at the top of 
this file:

1. Log in as a user with the permission "Administer software updates".

2. Go to Administration > Configuration > Development > Maintenance mode.
    Enable the "Put site into maintenance mode" checkbox and save the
    configuration.

3. Remove all old core files and directories, except for the 'sites' 
directory
    and any custom files you added elsewhere.

    If you made modifications to files like .htaccess or robots.txt, you 
will
    need to re-apply them from your backup, after the new files are in 
place.

    Sometimes an update includes changes to settings.php (this will be 
noted in
    the release announcement). If that's the case, replace your old 
settings.php
    with the new one, and copy the site-specific entries (especially the 
lines
    giving the database name, user, and password) from the old 
settings.php to
    the new settings.php.

4. Download the latest Drupal 7.x release from http://drupal.org to a
    directory outside of your web root. Extract the archive and copy the 
files
    into your Drupal directory.

    On a typical Unix/Linux command line, use the following commands to 
download
    and extract:

      wget http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-x.y.tar.gz
      tar -zxvf drupal-x.y.tar.gz

    This creates a new directory drupal-x.y/ containing all Drupal files 
and
    directories. Copy the files into your Drupal installation directory:

      cp -R drupal-x.y/* drupal-x.y/.htaccess /path/to/your/installation

    If you do not have command line access to your server, download the 
archive
    from http://drupal.org using your web browser, extract it, and then 
use an
    FTP client to upload the files to your web root.

5. Re-apply any modifications to files such as .htaccess or robots.txt.

6. Run update.php by visiting http://www.example.com/update.php (replace
www.example.com with your domain name). This will update the core database
    tables.

    If you are unable to access update.php do the following:

    - Open settings.php with a text editor.

    - Find the line that says:
      $update_free_access = FALSE;

    - Change it into:
      $update_free_access = TRUE;

    - Once the upgrade is done, $update_free_access must be reverted to 
FALSE.

7. Go to Administration > Reports > Status report. Verify that 
everything is
    working as expected.

8. Ensure that $update_free_access is FALSE in settings.php.

9. Go to Administration > Configuration > Development > Maintenance mode.
    Disable the "Put site into maintenance mode" checkbox and save the
    configuration.

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