[support] Upgrading Issue

[Jamie Holly]

Are you sure you extracted the downloaded file to the right folder?
Check in your Drupal root folder and see if you have something like
Drupal-7.4 in there. If so, you need to move those files to the root.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net


On 7/4/2011 2:00 PM, Ross Bundy wrote:
> Thanks, Nancy. There are two things which concern me.
>
> 1) When go to http://(mysite)/update.php, I only get to what appears
> to be step three of five. I am not able to progress to "Run updates"
> and "Review log", the last two steps.
>
> 2) When I go to the "Status report" page for my site, it still shows
> "Drupal 7.2".
>
> All indications are that the upgrade did not complete.
>
> Thanks,
> --ross
>
> On 7/4/2011 11:49 AM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:
>> If you get to "No pending updates," then you're done.
>>  
>> /*Nancy*/
>>  
>> Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin
>> L. King, Jr.
>>
>>     *From:* Ross Bundy <ross.e.bundy at gmail.com>
>>     *To:* support at drupal.org
>>     *Sent:* Monday, July 4, 2011 11:56 AM
>>     *Subject:* [support] Upgrading Issue
>>
>>     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 <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 <http://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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