[Tor www-team] Help in migrating from Drupal 5 to 7

Eric Schaefer omg at eric-schaefer.com
Thu Aug 28 08:08:54 UTC 2014


Also what version of Debian / PHP / MySQL should I set up for running/testing locally, to match what’s available in production? Apologies if this is documented somewhere, I just couldn’t find it.


On Aug 28, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Eric Schaefer <omg at eric-schaefer.com> wrote:

>> Mostly what I'm looking to do is to keep our blog
>> working in the short term, and figure out a better plan for long term.
> 
> Totally understandable. 
> 
> What are the first steps to get a copy of the old Drupal site (with scrubbed/new admin credentials, etc)?
> 
> E
> 
> 
> On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.is> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/27/2014 11:19 AM, Eric Schaefer wrote:
>>> Too bad that it’s staying on Drupal! I had worked out exporting all
>>> posts, comments, and events into markdown files for Jekyll (this is
>>> totally done) with a ruby script
>>> [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10479]. I could have
>>> a Jekyll version of the complete Tor blog up and running by Friday.
>>> But then of course there’s the issue of where to host comments, etc
>>> etc. Still seems like an easier task than a Drupal migration though.
>> 
>> This is awesome. Mostly what I'm looking to do is to keep our blog
>> working in the short term, and figure out a better plan for long term.
>> 
>> We may find out that our drupal 5 design doesn't work at all with drupal
>> 7 and have to revert. If it does work, in the short term (1 month), we'd
>> at least have a working blog again (comments, posting, spam control,
>> search functionality, event calendar, etc)
>> 
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>> Andrew
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