regarding restoring the database in Drupal

[thulasi chandra]

Hi,

I am Thulasi Chandra. I'm working on drupal.
I have got the backup of an existing site. the site is designed in 5.x
it has large amount of users and data. currently i am working in Drupal 6.x .
Can anyone help me out, how to connect this existing database to Drupal 6?

Ragards
Thulasi chandra

[Saifi Khan-3]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, thulasi chandra wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am Thulasi Chandra. I'm working on drupal.
> I have got the backup of an existing site. the site is designed in 5.x
> it has large amount of users and data. currently i am working in Drupal 6.x .
> Can anyone help me out, how to connect this existing database to Drupal 6?
>
> Ragards
> Thulasi chandra
>

You need to upgrade the database to the Drupal 6.x schema.

Strategy would be
 . upgrade 5.x  to 5.19
 . upgrade 5.19 to 6.13

Steps are:

Login as admin.

Set the system to offline

Take backups.

extract version drupal 5.19 contents to the base directory of
your current installation.

access the link http://yourwebsite.com/upgrade.php

This will help you get the base configuration in shape.

For additional info, take a look at the screencast at

1. http://drupal.org/videocasts/upgrading-to-6

Hope this helps.


thanks
Saifi.