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I want to use drush for upgrade my drupal 6 to drupal7. i read this document. i have a problem with create alias. i have been doing this

1- create a subdomain in my plesk (create sub.domain.com)

2- go to /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs and download this file and rename this to "aliases.drushrc.php"

3- remove aliases.drushrc.php content and replace with

<?php $aliases['sub'] = array( 'root' => '/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/sub', 'uri' => 'sub.domain.com', ); ?>

4- run command: drush @sub status and i get this error:

The drush command '@sub status' could not be found. Rundrush cache-clear drushto clear the commandfile cache if you have installed new extensions

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Although the Drupal root is a valid place to store alias files, Drush will not be able to find the alias records described there until the Drupal root as been specified. Therefore, drush @sub status has a chicken-and-egg problem; you want to use @sub to specify the Drupal root, but Drush won't load the alias file that defines @sub until the Drupal site it is defined in is bootstrapped.

To resolve this problem, move your aliases file to $HOME/.drush/aliases.drushrc.php. Once you do that, then your status command will work.

You may define your 'onward' alias either in $HOME/.drush/aliases.drushrc.php, or in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/aliases.drushrc.php, per your preference.

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Drush Site Upgrade needs to be installed first.

You can download the module and upload it to drush/commands/core folder. Now you will be able to run this command

If you are getting some problems when Drush tries to create a new database, create it first and enter it in the alias file.

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    The error message here is deceptive; although Drush is saying "command not found", what it is really reporting is that @sub is not found. Once the problem reported in the question has been resolved per my answer, then you are correct: drush dl drush_sup should be used to download Drush Site Upgrade to $HOME/.drush. Using drush dl to install a Drush extension will always clear the Drush commandfile cache; if you install an extension manually (e.g. via wget or cp), then you should run drush cc drush) afterwards.
    – greg_1_anderson
    Sep 16, 2012 at 13:36

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