Thanks, Jamie.

I extracted the ZIP file on top of my existing directory overwriting the old files. I have my website under Subversion, and I checked the differences between the existing checked in copy and the new one. Nothing jumps out as out of the ordinary. For example, in the Drupal root directory, COPYRIGHT.txt remained unchanged, while the version changed from 7.2 to 7.4 in profiles\minimal\minimal.info. Spot checking, all of the other file changes seem reasonable. I show that 194 files were modified and 6 were added.

I don't think that the file extraction or file location is the problem. Good thought, though.

Other ideas?

Thanks,
--ross

On 7/4/2011 1:04 PM, Jamie Holly wrote:

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@gmail.com>
To: support@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 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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