Should be a piece of cake!

The only thing I would look for are possible dependencies on hosting weirdnesses in general and PHP 4 in particular, given the version throwback.

Make sure you preserve a copy of the original instal (the whole shebang not just Drupal).

What weirdness is in the .htaccess file? What weirdness is in the ./sites/default/settings.php file?

Prefixed db?

Victor Kane
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai@content2zero.com> wrote:
Hi Gang,

I'm bidding on a site upgrade which is currently running on Drupal 4.5.5. The good (actually great) news is that there are no non-core modules running except for the image module. I haven't had direct access to the db and the node content page isn't filterable by content type in 4.5, out of the 1280 nodes, I believe that fewer than 50 are images.

I figure I'd upgrade to the last 4.5 release which was 4.5.8, then to 4.6.11, then to 4.7.11, 5.19, 6.13.

The db is MySQL. There are 1280 nodes. There is one vocabulary with about 130 terms. No important blocks. It's running a minimally customized version of Bluemarine. But I'm throwing the theme out completely, anyway.

Even though it is five upgrades, this looks like it will be simple. Am I deluding myself? Are there any gotchas that I'm not seeing? Any advice, especially about what I may not be thinking of, would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Shai

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