- eftucker
I am going to post everything I learned in this journey. I will use this forum as a type of blog. I will document step-by-step my learning path of the migration from 5x.
Feel free to leave comments or questions as I post.
My trip from 5x to 6x
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 - 2:55 pm
The final site that I am looking to migrate is http://utolabs.asu.edu. To find out the current "recipe" I used to create it, go to https://sites.google.com/a/asu.edu/uto-labs-drupal-recipe/. You will find all the information of the current site, including the use of over 70 modules....yup. That is what's been holding me back from going to 6x till now.
A great screencast I used to get started is titled "Overview of Drupal 6" located at http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/4. It has given me a good picture of what I am in for.
I've requested a new domain from the webconsulting@asu.edu group. I used this form: http://web.asu.edu/community/resources/asu-web-hosting.
One small step for man ....
I received the domain from UTO webconsulting. I used the Direct Admin interface and went to the "Installatron Script Installer" and installed Drupal. The latest version that was available at this time is 6.9. The Drupal 6 Overview in my previous post was very helpful to prepare me.
http://utolabsd6.asu.edu/
My first hiccup.
Ok I went to the template site to try out the Drupal 6 theme. I found an error in the CSS formatting of the magnifying glass on the top right.
I downloaded from:
http://template.asu.edu/drupal/drupal5-3/drupal-themes#tabs--drupal_them... but I heard that it is now out of alpha and it is a full release. I am thinking the newest version is in SVN. I have started an investigation.
Important Tip:
I found out the the new version of ASU Web Auth is bundled with the Theme. So this means once I untared the tar ball I needed to move it out of the sites/theme folder and put it in the sites/modules folder to work.
Here is a good overview screencast for the the upgrade:
http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/upgrading-to-drupal-6
I found out after watching this that the Installerton capability that was added to the UTO Web Hosting Direct Admin will help a lot in the upgrade.
I am finding it is VERY important to do things in order. So far, this is what I heard:
I will update this list on what actually worked. :-) If it doesn't. That means I need to do it the manual as seen in the screencast of the previous post.
Documentation, documentation, and more....documentation.
Here is a collection of basic videos showing an overview, installation, and upgrading of Drupal6 from the Drupal website:
http://drupal.org/node/128752
So far so good. Here is a D6 version using ASU Theme and ASU Web Auth.
http://utolabsd6.asu.edu
Problem: You need to follow the ReadMe.txt file exactly. It is not a normal theme. Plus for some reason they put it all together in one tar ball. So the new theme is without the required Zen theme, but ASU Scope search and ASU Web Auth modules are part of it.
What does this mean? So when you install and download the tarbar at: http://template.asu.edu/drupal/drupal5-3/drupal-themes#tabs--drupal_them... remember you need to download an additional theme and install the scope search module for the theme to work. I am unsure if you need to install ASU Web Auth, but I needed it anyway.