[support] Upgrade frmo 6.17 to 7.22 messed up my web site

Olivier Nicole Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th
Thu Aug 14 13:37:00 UTC 2014


> You have choose wrong method for upgrading drupal6 website to drupal7. If
> you have the backup of your website then upload the backup of your drupal6
> website.

So it looks. I followed the steps offered by the web hosting. Apparently
they were wrong steps. I am working at restoring the previous version.

Thank you

Olivier

> 
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Muzaffer Tolga Ozses <tolga at ozses.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > I looked at the link, and it looks like some custom module is messing with
> > the $output of the user_login form.
> >
> >
> > On 14 August 2014 14:39, Walt Daniels <wdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Unless yours is a very simple site you are unlikely to succeed with a
> >> simple upgrade. You have to use migrate to a real chance at success. For
> >> example after an update upgrade most of your views will be broken and need
> >> hand repair. Organic groups are totally messed up. Some contrib modules
> >> have no equivalent or you need to use a different module for similar
> >> function.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Olivier Nicole <
> >> Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have a web site, hosted at godaddycom that I am maintening for a
> >>> colleague.
> >>>
> >>> We recently receive an advise saying we should upgrade to the latest
> >>> version of Drupal.
> >>>
> >>> I tried yesterday, using the automatic procedure provided by the web
> >>> hosting company, but it messed up my web site.
> >>>
> >>> First error was about unexisting function file_directory_path in
> >>> sites/all/theme/sky/template.php
> >>>
> >>> I did replace any occurence of file_directory_path by file_default_scheme
> >>> in any file I could find. And now my site display "site under
> >>> construction".
> >>>
> >>> What can I do next?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>
> >>> Olivier
> 


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