Site upgrade from 6 to 7

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igzeebihir's picture

I have to move a site from 6 to 7 for a small school in north Kildare. Its not a terribly complicated site, a few views, slideshows, galleries etc and a couple of content types. Would I be better off rebuilding and migrating content or going through the upgrade process as described in upgrade.txt?

Any suggestions are appreciated...

Thanks in advance,
Rick.

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if you have a large authenticated user base...

msharff1000's picture

...then the upgrade will be easier. you will probably need to update or recreate the slideshows (and galleries, depending on how they were created), but the nodes and views should come through mostly intact.

ack posted twice

msharff1000's picture

apologies

If upgrading from D6 to D7

conorc's picture

Hi Rick,

I've found these guides useful for when I was upgrading some client sites from D6 to D7.

If it's a very simple site, with only a small amount of content you might consider rebuilding, and just manually copying content as required. There's also an argument for creating a new site and just pulling the data from the old site to the new with either the Feeds or the Migrate contributed modules.

Hope this helps

Thanks all for the

igzeebihir's picture

Thanks all for the suggestions and links, tried the upgrade last night on a test version of the site to no avail, lots of errors when applying the database updates. Looks like its a fresh install and re-build.

Rick.

Just to throw it out there,

stella's picture

Just to throw it out there, why not create it in Drupal 8? Built into D8 core there is a migrate path from 6 to 8. If it's not that complicated a site, you should get away with just drupal core.

If there are any features on

markconroy's picture

If there are any features on the D6 site (e.g. the image gallery), then they won't upgrade from D6 to D7 as there is no features upgrade path. You will need to rebuild those in the new site.

If it's a fairly simple site, I'd built in D8 at this stage, now that D8 beta-to-beta upgrade is in place.

Thanks

igzeebihir's picture

Thanks folks for the advice, I attempted the 6->7 upgrade again and it worked, my mistake first time was to leave the original d6 settings.php in place. I wrongly assumed it would be overwritten.

I didn't go for the drupal 8 option because I haven't had the time to explore it fully yet. I have a test site running but haven't got it right in my own mind yet. Thanks for the suggestions though...

Upgrade of most modules worked well. As mark said, the image gallery didn't migrate, but the taxonomy and nodes did (without the actual image node attachments). I managed to update the image node attachments by exporting the d6 image nodes with views data export to a csv file and re-importing the paths to d7 with the Feeds csv parser...worked like a charm.

I've still got some theming and configuring work to do to rebuild the galleries with views but the upgrade process worked well for me in the end and reduced the workload significantly.

Again, thanks for the support and advice...

Rick.