daigo.org RSSUpgrading Drupal
I have to admit that I was lazy and have not upgraded one of my Japanese language Drupal site since it was installed in 4.5.0 some time in 2004. I have finally gotten around to think about upgrading. Well, stupifd comment spam forced me to upgrade, to tell you the truth.
But since Drupal went through some major upgrading from 4.6 to 4.7, I figured that it would be too complicated to “upgrade” it. And since the web site is so sparsely updated that it only had about 40 or so entry, I have decided (after doing some reading on the web about how painful it was to upgrade for some people…) I’ve decided to just simply installed the brand newest and greatest version (5.1) and manually move the contents over. This is my running notes on how i am doing this.
- First I moved the old one into a new domain, then edited /include/conf.php to reflect the domain change, it seems to work with out a problem. (I tried to do that with Joomla and failed miserably and lost all my content change and template change.)
- Downloaded the new drupal, extract and moved them into the directory, created mysql using m host’s web interface, then accessed the URL. Bingo. put in the MySQL info and, boom, its up and running. I am impressed.
- I downloaded the Japanese Translation, then upon further reading I decided that I will download the Japanese Resource Kit.
- Following language install steps.
- I am completely stumped. The manual says “Go to Administor >Site configuration > Localization, then follow the direction and you are done.” But I do not see the Localiizatiion option. Am I crazy?
- OK, I just needed to go to Site building > Modules and activate the “Locale” module. Now I see the option, then I was able to import the ja.po and then made it a default language. Done. It was pretty simple.
