Re: [support] How to upgrade multisite installations to Drupal 5.0?
Quoting dondi_2006 <dondi_2006@libero.it>:
Hello, I have checked in the forums, and all I have found is other two users with the very same problem and no answer at all in three weeks:
http://drupal.org/node/126461 http://drupal.org/node/132425 http://drupal.org/node/126438
Is it really true that there is no way to upgrade one multi-site drupal install from 4.7.6 to 5.0 or 5.1 working only on the command line????
You could use wget but the upgrade.php expects you to pick a version to upgrade to.
I know that wget or curl can do this kind of things, thanks. I haven't gone that way yet for two reasons: 1) I really, really couldn't believe that this case (one drupal install for several sites, each one with its own database) had been ignored or forgotten by the developers. I haven't even seen anywhere any official announcement that such a way to use Drupal would have become deprecated with Drupal 5. Did I miss such an announcement? 2) I am not going to play with several *live* websites, risking to mess them up, to make an untested procedure work. Not until there is the slightest possibility that a tested way to make this upgrade comes up (I can't obtain more databases right now on that server). Is it at least possible to know for *sure*, before trying it, if running that procedure through ONE of the websites currently managed by Drupal 4.7.6 will upgrade all the others? Thanks, D. ------------------------------------------------------ Leggi GRATIS le tue mail con il telefonino i-mode di Wind http://click.libero.it/imode
Agreed. Punting support for people who run multiple sites from one install with Drupal 5 is pretty bad. By the time we migrate to D5 sometime this summer, I suspect we will have 40 to 80 sites, running from 1 to 3 installs.
Quoting Chris Johnson <cxjohnson@gmail.com>:
Agreed. Punting support for people who run multiple sites from one install with Drupal 5 is pretty bad. By the time we migrate to D5 sometime this summer, I suspect we will have 40 to 80 sites, running from 1 to 3 installs.
I would put D5 in a different directory and update sites gradually. Add D5 to the DB table prefix and copy the existing data to the D5 table space before doing the upgrade. You can point to D4 vs D5 using the httpd config files. This gives you a backout path should you need it. Then when the upgrades are complete you can drop the older tables and the D4 version. Earnie
Quoting dondi_2006 <dondi_2006@libero.it>:
Quoting dondi_2006 <dondi_2006@libero.it>:
Hello, I have checked in the forums, and all I have found is other two users with the very same problem and no answer at all in three weeks:
http://drupal.org/node/126461 http://drupal.org/node/132425 http://drupal.org/node/126438
Is it really true that there is no way to upgrade one multi-site drupal install from 4.7.6 to 5.0 or 5.1 working only on the command line????
You could use wget but the upgrade.php expects you to pick a version to upgrade to.
I know that wget or curl can do this kind of things, thanks. I haven't gone that way yet for two reasons:
1) I really, really couldn't believe that this case (one drupal install for several sites, each one with its own database) had been ignored or forgotten by the developers. I haven't even seen anywhere any official announcement that such a way to use Drupal would have become deprecated with Drupal 5. Did I miss such an announcement?
It isn't deprecated or removed. Automation for updates were improved in Drupal 5. However, the multi site update detection must be lacking for you to post this. There is no reason why you can't execute the update.php on each site manually by directing the URI to update.php for each site.
2) I am not going to play with several *live* websites, risking to mess them up, to make an untested procedure work. Not until there is the slightest possibility that a tested way to make this upgrade comes up (I can't obtain more databases right now on that server).
Only a fool would play with an update without first doing it in a development environment first. How will the update affect your modules? Are all of the modules you use up to date with the current version?
Is it at least possible to know for *sure*, before trying it, if running that procedure through ONE of the websites currently managed by Drupal 4.7.6 will upgrade all the others?
Look at update.php. Test it in development. Earnie
I wouldn't object to having a script for command-line multi-database updates. But you can safely assume by now that nobody has written such a script yet. This seems easier for upgrades between minor versions or for core-only upgrades (because the contributed modules and themes often don't have a matching major version). Since the developer wouldn't know how people have messed with their sites, such a script would be mostly suitable for people who can take care of their module and theme versions, read error messages, fix their database, run test updates, or revert to an interactive process if necessary. On 4/2/07, dondi_2006 <dondi_2006@libero.it> wrote:
Quoting dondi_2006 <dondi_2006@libero.it>:
Hello, I have checked in the forums, and all I have found is other two users with the very same problem and no answer at all in three weeks:
http://drupal.org/node/126461 http://drupal.org/node/132425 http://drupal.org/node/126438
Is it really true that there is no way to upgrade one multi-site drupal install from 4.7.6 to 5.0 or 5.1 working only on the command line????
You could use wget but the upgrade.php expects you to pick a version to upgrade to.
I know that wget or curl can do this kind of things, thanks. I haven't gone that way yet for two reasons:
1) I really, really couldn't believe that this case (one drupal install for several sites, each one with its own database) had been ignored or forgotten by the developers. I haven't even seen anywhere any official announcement that such a way to use Drupal would have become deprecated with Drupal 5. Did I miss such an announcement? 2) I am not going to play with several *live* websites, risking to mess them up, to make an untested procedure work. Not until there is the slightest possibility that a tested way to make this upgrade comes up (I can't obtain more databases right now on that server).
Is it at least possible to know for *sure*, before trying it, if running that procedure through ONE of the websites currently managed by Drupal 4.7.6 will upgrade all the others?
Thanks, D.
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