Hi all. I fresh installed Fedora 16 on a hd here at home. There is no drush for Fedora 16 so followed the instructions for manual install Drupal 7.21 install. Worked ok. Dev and test are working.
I drush up 'd up my Ubuntu drupal 7.10 dev and test installs and all worked well. Nothing had changed, both now 7.12 core.
I went to our server which is virtually identical to my ubuntu installs and via ssh drush up the development site then the live site and -- all hell broke loose. Both sites wrecked. I get a server error for both.
With cpanel I uploaded a small index.html to each so it appears in the drupal install above the index.php in the file list and called that with www.site.com/index.html. The page displays so there server is working. So I copied the drupal-7.10.tar.gz file to both and unzipped, copied the sites folder from the previously working sites to the 710 installs and it sort of works, -- theme is crapo but it worked.
It seems that drush failed to do the update correctly. This is worrying as we rely on drush and it has not failed before this.
Will it be ok if I copy the drupal-7.12.tar.gz to the server. Extract that and copy the original working /sites folder to the new install? Are there any gotchas in this method.
Would it be better to rename the sites folder, delete the drupal install, copy the drupal 7.12 extraction files minus the /sites folder over to the working directory, rename the xxsites folder to /sites so the install picks it all up. Are there any gotchas in this method? Would it be better to go thru the install procedure and point it to the working database.
I caught a glimpse of a post that said to avoid 7.12 and revert to 7.11 but there is no 7.11 only 7.10 so I felt this post to be inaccurate.
Does anyone have info on how to fix this problem please. Thanks Roger
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Roger arelem@bigpond.com wrote:
Hi all. I fresh installed Fedora 16 on a hd here at home. There is no drush for Fedora 16 so followed the instructions for manual install Drupal 7.21 install. Worked ok. Dev and test are working.
I drush up 'd up my Ubuntu drupal 7.10 dev and test installs and all worked well. Nothing had changed, both now 7.12 core.
I went to our server which is virtually identical to my ubuntu installs and via ssh drush up the development site then the live site and -- all hell broke loose. Both sites wrecked. I get a server error for both.
With cpanel I uploaded a small index.html to each so it appears in the drupal install above the index.php in the file list and called that with www.site.com/index.html. The page displays so there server is working. So I copied the drupal-7.10.tar.gz file to both and unzipped, copied the sites folder from the previously working sites to the 710 installs and it sort of works, -- theme is crapo but it worked.
It seems that drush failed to do the update correctly. This is worrying as we rely on drush and it has not failed before this.
Will it be ok if I copy the drupal-7.12.tar.gz to the server. Extract that and copy the original working /sites folder to the new install? Are there any gotchas in this method.
Would it be better to rename the sites folder, delete the drupal install, copy the drupal 7.12 extraction files minus the /sites folder over to the working directory, rename the xxsites folder to /sites so the install picks it all up. Are there any gotchas in this method? Would it be better to go thru the install procedure and point it to the working database.
The sites folder: I have a set up something similar to
/var/www/drupal/6 /var/www/drupal/7
I extract new D6 into the obvious folder and so for D7. Also in /var/www/drupal/6 I have a folder named sites and so for D7. I change directory to the new extracted version and move sites to sites-orig and symlink ../sites to sites. I have my vhosts set in a webadmin directory where each vhost has a directory named for it. So in /home/webadmin I have sitefoo and in /home/webadmin/sitefoo I symlink /var/www/drupal/6/drupal-VERSION to htdocs and set the RootDocument to /home/webadmin/sitefoo/htdoc.
In /var/www/drupal/6/sites/sitefoo I have directories named modules, themes, files and tmp. I make sure that the file-system settings point to the individual vhost files and tmp directories. I always extract the modules I use to the sites/sitefoo/modules directory and sites/sitefoo/themes directory so that I can upgrade modules on an individual vhost basis.
When upgrading I always put the individual site in maintenance mode, take a backup of the DB with mysqldump, modify the symlinked htdocs directory and then execute update.php. But before I upgrade production I always test a dev version of the site because you never know. Once the update.php script is done I take the site out of maintenance mode but only after an initial view of the site. If the initial view doesn't look right I can restore the database and change the symlink.
I caught a glimpse of a post that said to avoid 7.12 and revert to 7.11 but there is no 7.11 only 7.10 so I felt this post to be inaccurate.
I haven't seen that yet.
Does anyone have info on how to fix this problem please.
I'm just about to update my sites and haven't tried yet.
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Earnie Boyd -
Roger