Failed Upgrade to Drupal 4.7.3

I am still running the 4.6.4 of Drupal for this blog. I finally got the time to test the upgrade to the latest version(4.7.3) in my laptop.

Well, it's such a painful experience.

Because I have a new laptop, I no longer had the Drupal environment setup in Windows XP. I had to install xampp first, then downloaded a copy of this site to run it locally. Well, the first thing happened was that Drupal's clean URL was no longer working.

This was particular frustrating because Drupal should have come with clean URL out of box instead of requiring additional configurations. I had to digg around to find out the configurations because I no longer remembered them.

Here are the necessary configurations:

modified httpd.conf of Apache to point to the Drupal installation directory:

Alias /drupal/ "c:/drupal/" 
<Directory “c:/drupal”> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from localhost </Directory>

modified .htaccess of my Drupal installation dir to turn on RewriteEngine, and point RewriteBase to the subdirectory of my Drupal installation("/drupal" in this case)

After all these steps, I can run my blog site in my laptop.

Then I started to the upgrade to 4.7.3. The "contact" database table update failed with the following errors:

• user warning: Unknown column 'subject' in 'contact' query
• user warning: Key column 'category' doesn't exist in table
• user warning: Key column 'category' doesn't exist in table

Maybe this is because I used the contact module from CivicSpace before.

In addition to the DB update problem, the main content(between the left and right menus) jusg get pushed down.

I also found out that awTags(the tagging module I use) is not available for 4.7.3.

so I just gave up on this upgrade for now.

Tags: drupal