[support] Upgrading from 4.5.5 to 6.13

[Victor Kane]

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
http://awebfactory.com.ar
http://projectflowandtracker.com

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at 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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