FYI - I moved my drupal site (www.centernetworks.com) from 4.7 to 5 last month - I was quite worried because I edited the core along with just tons of edits. I found the process to be painless and took about 3 hrs to get everything back the way I wanted it. Some tweaks to the template were the trickiest if I remember.
Just make sure you watch the upgrade video and back up everything!
-- Allen
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Oh, 6.0 is imminent? When is it due? Normally how frequent are new releases?
Btw, thanks for the step-by-step. Very helpful. This is my first ever migration.
Cheers, Daniel.
Ari Davidow wrote:
Working from memory (we're in the middle of planning a similar upgrade), this isn't necessarily very complicated.
- Upgrade to the last 4.7 release--that's mostly security stuff and
some minor (any?) table changes. You need to do that in all cases, even if you don't go on to 5.x (but you probably want 5.x soon, since 6.0 is imminent.) 2. Make sure that there are updates to all of the modules you need, or modules to which you can migrate, to meet your needs. 3. Upgrade to the current 5.x . (Is there an "upgrade to 5.0" step? I don't think so, but I could be wrong. You'll want to do this on a test/dev site first, as some themes are likely to break, depending on what you have customized how.
There seems to be some decent documentation on the drupal.org http://drupal.org site. Look in the "tutorials" page of the "handbook" section. Here's a useful Introduction to Upgrading: http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction
ari On 10/15/07, *Daniel Carrera* < daniel.carrera@zmsl.com mailto:daniel.carrera@zmsl.com> wrote:
Hello, I have a production website that runs on Drupal 4.7. Should I move it to Drupal 5.2? I'm concerned that migrating might be difficult, might be work, or might cause downtime for my users. On the other hand, I'm concerned about staying with an old software version that might become unsupported in the future, and that migration might be more difficult later. My Drupal 4.7 site has several modules added on and I figure that these might not all work in Drupal 5. My understanding is that backwards compatibility is not a development goal for Drupal. So perhaps the best way to "migrate" is to essentially re-do the website from scratch and then copy all the content from the 4.7 site. I'm generally happy with Drupal 4.7. Is there any page that briefly explains what's new and exciting in Drupal 5 that might make one want to move to it? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Daniel. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]