Congratulations! You have successfully upgraded your Drupal site. Here's a brief recap of what you did in this chapter:
After backing up your site and database, taking your site offline and running Status report, you upgraded your Drupal core code to Drupal 5.19.
You installed the Drupal Update Status module and later removed the module so that it would not cause conflicts during the 6.x upgrade.
You upgraded all of your 5.x versions of contributed modules—a very important step prior to the upgrade to Drupal 6.x.
You backed up your Views by exporting their code.
You prepped for the Drupal 6.x upgrade by disabling all contributed modules and enabling the default Drupal Garland theme.
You upgraded the Drupal core code to 6.13 and ran
update.php
to update the entire Drupal database schema, thereby confirming that your MySQL database tables were updated.You made your first major performance tweak to your server and site by raising the PHP
memory_limit
settings to 96M—this setting needs to be larger to run Drupal 6.x and all of the contributed modules you have.
At this point you can bring your site back online using the site maintenance configuration. We'll see you back here for more performance tips in Chapter 2, including how to manage the Drupal cache system, clear the theme registry, and tweak your PHP settings.