Rolling on Drupal 7

Submitted by Ryan on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:02

It's been a while since I updated this blog. In fact it was ignored for all of 2010. But I'm aiming to keep it more up to date this year, as I work on a variety of things which I will introduce later.

First thing is that this site has been completely upgraded from my original multisite Drupal 6 distribution to my new, in development Drupal 7 distribution.

This was actually surprisingly easy, as this site had little content. All I had to do was:

  1. BACKUP!
  2. Copy my original site directory from /sites on the Drupal 6 server to /sites on the Drupal 7 server
  3. Uninstall unnecessary modules, disable used modules
  4. Backup database
  5. Create a new database on the Drupal 7 server, and editing the details into the settings.php file
  6. Upload the Drupal 6 database to the new, empty database on the Drupal 7 server
  7. Unpark the domain name on the old server, and park on the new server
  8. Run the update.php script on the new site, upgrading core to Drupal 7

There are still some issues migrating Image types but I'm working on that and hopefully that will be resolved soon through field_convert and image_legacy modules.