Migrating openscholar from drupal 6 to drupal 7

OpenScholar uses the Migrate module to import data from a drupal 6 installation to a drupal 7 one. The standard update.php upgrade path is not supported. Instead, we create a new d7 installation and copy data from the legacy database.

Setup

0. This setup assumes you already have a working installation with d6 production data and files.
1. Install D7 with the openscholar profile.
2. Edit D7's settings.php. Provide credentials to access the d6 database. (Example provided in link in step 4).
3. In D7, enable os_migrate.
4. Configure os_migrate (admin/config/openscholar/os_migrate).
   • Migration database uses the name of the database from step 2
   • Files directory is the path to your d6 installation. When migrating files, this will be prepended to the path in the files table.

Migration