Friday, November 9, 2007

Upgrade Procedure - Drupal 5.2 to Drupal 5.3

  1. Disable (offline) the bluehost original / production site using the Site Maintenance module.
  2. Install a fresh copy of of drupal 5.3 into bluehost smv/smv53
  3. Copy the 3rd party modules from /smv/prod from bluehost.com to your local pc. Then ftp the same dir into bluehost smv/smv53/sites/all/modules
  4. Copy the user files from /smv/prod/files into /smv/smv53/files.
  5. Rename the existing directory from prod to prod.20071109.
  6. Rename the new updated directory from smv53 to prod.
  7. If disabled, login with url ending in /user to display the login screen.
  8. Run the update.php.
  9. Enable (online) the updated site using the Site Maintenance module.