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I'm a novice Drupal user, and I have relatively lightweight Drupal 6 site (meaning, no custom-built modules) hosted by a commercial company, installed using SimpleScripts. I'd like to migrate to Drupal 7, but I'm nervous about doing it successfully. Can anyone provide a simple step-by-step set of instructions?

Please feel free to leave comments if I need to provide more information. As I said, I'm a novice.

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This topic is already well covered in the Drupal documentation. IMHO, to properly answer this kind of question in the Drupal community spirit one would either point to the existing documentation or write a long response that should actually be contributed as documentation on drupal.org and not on stackexchange.com. – Pierre Buyle Mar 3 '11 at 13:37
@mongolito404: Isn't that exactly what happened? The most voted-up answer points to the existing documentation. Which I appreciate and will use, although I was hoping for some more elaboration than the documentation offers. What's wrong with that? – Alex Basson Mar 3 '11 at 15:43
The question specifically ask for step-by-step instructions, which is exactly what is provided in the drupal.org documentation. It isn't very specific and so call for a generic answer already knowns by many and easily found when searched. It left me with the impression that you didn't even bother to look at the existing documentation. If this is the kind of questions we are going to get on drupal.stackexchange.com, I don't see the point and I think it will not attract others. That's why I voted the question down. – Pierre Buyle Mar 3 '11 at 20:51

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See: http://drupal.org/documentation/upgrade/6/7

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Personally I would not bother upgrading sites to Drupal 7 unless there is a compelling reason to do so. If you are going to, I would check that any non core modules you are using have stable releases for Drupal 7 before going any further as Drupal 7 is still very new and some modules may be buggy. – Camsoft Mar 2 '11 at 21:04
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You may want to check out also these two guides if you made your own modules and/or themes, they are very helpful to developers:

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If you were using CCK, the Drupal 7 version of CCK also includes a handy 'Content Migration' module that allows you to update custom CCK content types to the D7 fields equivalent.

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You do not need to look very far. The file UPGRADE.txt that comes with Drupal 7 explains all necessary steps. But you should check if all needed modules are already ported before you even think about upgrading.

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If you need to check which modules have Drupal 7 version, http://drupal7ready.org can be helpful

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Also, the Upgrade Status module gives you a report of readiness of the modules you have installed. (That said, I'm also keeping a spreadsheet to track readiness status in a bit more detail: which have open issues, early patches, etc.) – epersonae Mar 4 '11 at 16:33
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I prefer to Migrate vs. Upgrade (in most cases).

I've upgraded like 20 sites from D6 to D7 of various sizes and complexities, and one thing I have learned is that most of the time things work out better when I bite the bullet and recreate the site from scratch in Drupal 7 then migrate the data from the D6 site vs. upgrading.

It doesn't take nearly as long as you think, and you will end up using a fraction of the modules you used to have, your database will be half the size of an upgraded site, you will get less puzzling random errors about unserialized data, etc. The whole site is likely to be leaner and cleaner.

Depending on the size of the site, I use manual copy/paste for the one-off content blocks and pages, but for something like 400 press nodes, or 9000 product nodes, I would use the Feeds module to batch import.

Bottom line: In Drupal 7, I build sites differently than I did in Drupal 6. I use a lot fewer complex workarounds to get things done, and I don't want to carry around all that cruft forever.

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I need this too, I tried upgrade, but it seems it's better to build a brand new Drupal 7 site and use Migrate 2 to migrate content.

Here's an step by step tutorial of migrating contents from Drupal 6 to 7: Migrate Contents from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 Using Migrate 2

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