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Botched Drupal Update... how to restore?

  • I deleted my entire drupal installation after a botched upgrade attempt. I have the /sites folder and the SQL database both backed up.... how do I restore my Drupal installation to how it was? I was following the update directions (I think I was upgrading to version 6.6 from version 6.4, but I am not sure), and something went wrong. After deleting my entire drupal installation like the directions said, I uploaded 6.6, uploaded my /sites folder, then I ran update.php. AFter this process appeared to be complete I tried to browse around the control panel of my site and all of the pages came up 404.... ANYWAYS, to make a long story short, now I am left with an empty directory, my /sites folder, and my SQL database backup...... can you please give me some guidance on how I can restore my drupal to how it was? Thanks so much - I am in big trouble on this one.

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    Correction: The original version was Drupal 6.1

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If you don;t want to do the upgrade, download 6.1 and upload it to the server. Replace the "sites" directory with your backup. That should bring you back online. Then you can check out options for doing the upgrade.

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I should rephrase: you should upgrade. But the quickest path to being back online is to go back to 6.1. Then install 6.1 on a local machine, or in another directory, and do some testing of the upgrade in a place where it does not make your site go down if it fails.

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One more thing: after you re-install the 6.1 files and your /sites directory, you will need to restore your database. The upgrade will have modified it, possibly past the point where the site can function. So: Download 6.1, unzip, upload the entire thing to your Drupal root folder. Upload your /sites folder, overwriting the one you just re-installed. Before doing anything else, restore your database. If that doesn't do it, get back to us.

bricoleur

all of the pages came up 404.... Very often when I encounter this in Drupal, it's because of a URL rewriting problem -- updating versions is not going to delete your content. Try going to yourdomain.com?q=admin/settings/clean-urls (be sure to include the ?q=) and turn off clean URLs if it's turned on. If that fixes the access problem, then most likely there is an error in your .htaccess file -- possibly a missing .htaccess file -- and the server is not correctly rewriting the URLs.

camcgee

Thanks for the help, everyone. I have done as you said, and 6.1 is back up and running. Thankfully the database did not seem to be altered by the attempted update. After I get my act together, I am going to go for the upgrade again, hopefully with better luck this time. Thanks

yoyoceramic

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