Tag: v5.0.0

WarQuest 5.0

This evening WarQuest v5.0 is released with the following changes and bug fixes:

24-03-2012 WarQuest 5.0
– Resync levels
– Earth levels are now 0 – 99.
– Moon levels are now 100 – 149.
– Mars levels are now 150 – 199.
– Asteroid levels are now 200 – 249.
– Added italian translation. Thanks ZennCore.
– Added 0.75 day cease fire option.
– Maximun unit amount per type increase to 5.000.
– Battle news (Home – News) contains now only last two days.
– Added travel option to alliance and help page.
– Added player profile building discount and maintenance detail page.
– Breaking news content is now always english.
– Default sorting alliance invite is change to last active on top.
– Bug fix: Cash flow detail pages now support planet switch.
– Bug fix: Player profile detail page – planet switch is now working correct.

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Drupal 5.x to 6.x migration

Last night I migrated the oostpoort website from Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x. The following steps did i executed to successful migrate the website.

1. Downloaded for each used 5.x module the 6.x release.
2. Make first backup.
3. Upgrade Drupal 5.20 to latest available level 5.22.
4. Upgrade all used Drupal 5.x modules to latest available level.
5. Make second backup.
6. Disable all none core related modules
7. Uninstall update_status 5.x module
8. Remove all Drupal 5.x modules from file system
9. Remove Drupal 5.x core files from file system.
10. Install Drupal 6.x core on file system
11. Configure settings.php (Take the new 6.x template as base) with correct database settings. Set $update_free_access to TRUE.
12. Access the website.
13. Run update.php two times
14. Now the system runs without any issues on Drupal 6.x
15. Install all needed Drupal 6.x modules.
16. Enable all modules and run again update.php
17. Change $update_free_access to FALSE in settings.php
18. Optional: Update theme template
19. Optional: Make third backup.

Some remarks:
– All these steps took four hours in total.
– If in the drupal configuration the start URL is “frontpage” replace it which “node” else the frontpage is not working anymore.
– If any of these steps fail restore the website which the available backup.