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In the process of upgrading Drupal sites to the latest version 6.3, I have come across a configuration difference between version 6 and previous versions.

Where before I used to put contributed modules and themes into the modules and themes folders, now they should reside under the sites\all\modules and sites\all\themes folders.

So now this makes an upgrade quite a bit easier.

Here is our process

1. For version 6 sites, check the available updates for any other module and theme updates that are required. Log into the site www.website.com/user as administrator.
2. Ensure back up is complete of both home directory and database
3. Go to admin settings, Site configuration, and site maintenance and put site into offline mode
4. Then go to administer and change theme to Garland
5. Turn off all non core modules
6. Now delete out all folders and files from public_html (within its Drupal folder) except
1. Sites (IMPORTANT)
2. Files
3. Any other non standard files or folders

This weeks GGB is Kate Carruthers, her profile is below…

Geek Girl Profile -

Name: Kate Carruthers
Screen Name’s: kcarruthers or carruthk 
Personal Blog: http://carruthk.blogspot.com
Social Networks: Twitter, Plurk, Linkedin, Facebook, Friendfeed, Profilactic, flickr, digg, brightkite, social|median.
Current Employment: Digital Business Group Pty Ltd, Creation Nation Pty Ltd, Macquarie University
Location: Sydney, Australia.

What is your motivation for blogging?

Just started as a way for me to remember stuff that caught my attention & keep track of ideas. Then it helped me to get in touch with the little girl who used to write stories everyday and I realised that I like writing, the process of communication.  Blogging is great fun because it is not just one way communication like a book, people can write back and you can have conversations.

A bunch of great things have come across my desk lately – haven’t got time to write about them all so here’s the links. go read them yourself.

Outlook signatures – how to back them up from one pc / profile to another

Latest release of Live Mesh – the news from the Liveside blog

Office Live Update 1.1

Virtual Machine Remote Control Client Plus

Open Source Mission - Bible Translation Wiki and Andree Yee – as introduced by Marcus Goodyear

CCBlogs – we built this site! go read the cool theological discussions that are happening here.

Not sure if I shared this one before or not. I built this social site for the basketball team I coach using Ning software – its great. Use it for free to develop a great social site for your organisation. Can be public or private.

Joe from Joe Tech has written an article outlining the top ten reasons he thinks the new Entrecard – SezWho partnership is great for bloggers.

Here’s a one line summary of each point – for the details read his article.

1. Your blog will get more comments
2. Comments will be high quality comments
3. You will leave more comments
4. Earn Entrecard credits
5. Check Me out – a SezWho feature
6. Reduced bounce rate
7. Backlinks
8. Its Viral
9. School of Blogging
10. It will keep you blogging