hi Thinktank, i went and f&%$#d up our website trying to upgrade drupal versions without fully knowing what i was doing. can anyone come to my aid? for a knowledgeable person, it would be very little time from your normal day. would love to find someone from the bike community to help... is that you?... read on.
urgency: somewhat high; our website is currently down and thats never good :(
overall goal: upgrade from drupal 5 to drupal 7 so that we can experiment with CiviCRM
what happened: i backed up our database using update/migrate module; and then performed the upgrade through out awesome hosts, mayfirst out of nyc. however, i went from 5 to 7 - which is wrong.... and I am bad with command line, so dont really fully understand the instructions that are being given me.
also: we are running drupal pretty much 'out-of-the-box' so this should be really easy!! no theming, no extra modules... but of course we would like to keep the historical database!!
pay: we can pay someone if that is useful/necessary and if they have some credentials to get it done quickly. if someone wants to volunteer to help us out, we will send you a few of our 'patchkits' - i would add a link, but HA! the site is down. it's a handmade (tube)pouch with a hand-printed patch, and and actual patchkit and tire levers... a great stocking stuffer for a diy-biker person.
Thanks, Andrew Lynn Troy Bike Rescue Troy, NY
Hey Andrew,
Speaking generally, I'm not sure it would be very straightforward to go from 5 to 7. I imagine it will need to be a bit of a manual process. If I were you,
- Restore your live site
- Get a test site running on your computer (using
XAMPPhttp://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.htmlor a standalone drupal dev desktop app https://www.acquia.com/downloads)
That takes away the urgency/panic, and lets you break things all day long.
Then I would start with a fresh 7 install, redefine your content types manually, then export each of your content data individually (maybe as CSV) and import them into 7. You'll have to also redefine any views you've created, and the theme will just be the default 7 theme. If you have node references set up across your content types, that gets trickier but I think will be do-able.
This all probably way too general, let me know if you have specific questions/problems.
Good luck!
Andy S Broke Spoke Community Bike Shop - Lexington KY
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Andrew L breathingplanet@gmail.comwrote:
hi Thinktank, i went and f&%$#d up our website trying to upgrade drupal versions without fully knowing what i was doing. can anyone come to my aid? for a knowledgeable person, it would be very little time from your normal day. would love to find someone from the bike community to help... is that you?... read on.
urgency: somewhat high; our website is currently down and thats never good :(
overall goal: upgrade from drupal 5 to drupal 7 so that we can experiment with CiviCRM
what happened: i backed up our database using update/migrate module; and then performed the upgrade through out awesome hosts, mayfirst out of nyc. however, i went from 5 to 7 - which is wrong.... and I am bad with command line, so dont really fully understand the instructions that are being given me.
also: we are running drupal pretty much 'out-of-the-box' so this should be really easy!! no theming, no extra modules... but of course we would like to keep the historical database!!
pay: we can pay someone if that is useful/necessary and if they have some credentials to get it done quickly. if someone wants to volunteer to help us out, we will send you a few of our 'patchkits' - i would add a link, but HA! the site is down. it's a handmade (tube)pouch with a hand-printed patch, and and actual patchkit and tire levers... a great stocking stuffer for a diy-biker person.
Thanks, Andrew Lynn Troy Bike Rescue Troy, NY
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If you have instructions, and just have a hard time understanding them, try contacting me on Google chat, or try using the freenode web chat client (I believe it's at webchat.free node.net) and join #drupal. The #drupal channel should be able to help. On Dec 18, 2012 10:36 AM, "Andrew L" breathingplanet@gmail.com wrote:
hi Thinktank, i went and f&%$#d up our website trying to upgrade drupal versions without fully knowing what i was doing. can anyone come to my aid? for a knowledgeable person, it would be very little time from your normal day. would love to find someone from the bike community to help... is that you?... read on.
urgency: somewhat high; our website is currently down and thats never good :(
overall goal: upgrade from drupal 5 to drupal 7 so that we can experiment with CiviCRM
what happened: i backed up our database using update/migrate module; and then performed the upgrade through out awesome hosts, mayfirst out of nyc. however, i went from 5 to 7 - which is wrong.... and I am bad with command line, so dont really fully understand the instructions that are being given me.
also: we are running drupal pretty much 'out-of-the-box' so this should be really easy!! no theming, no extra modules... but of course we would like to keep the historical database!!
pay: we can pay someone if that is useful/necessary and if they have some credentials to get it done quickly. if someone wants to volunteer to help us out, we will send you a few of our 'patchkits' - i would add a link, but HA! the site is down. it's a handmade (tube)pouch with a hand-printed patch, and and actual patchkit and tire levers... a great stocking stuffer for a diy-biker person.
Thanks, Andrew Lynn Troy Bike Rescue Troy, NY
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