Now with new flavour: Drupal 6.3

Finaly! I got my site up and running with the totally wicked cool Drupal 6. A long awaited upgrade, atleast I feel that way, since Drupal 6 has so many awesome new features (not to mentioned here). A big leap from Drupal 5.2

The upgrade went smooth, with only one hickup. So what was the recipie for my success you may ask. Oh, guess what. I'm about to tell you.

First off all I took my site to offline mode, before I made a complete backup of my database. That's easy with phpMyAdmin.
Next I disabled all modules not a part of the Drupal core.
After that I downloaded the new version of Drupal, all the contrib modules I use and the theme. And I made backup of the old file structure.
Next I removed all the files from public http folder, leving room for the and fresh Drupal installation.
Guess what's next? Right. I uploaded the new fresh Drupal installation with the modules and themes that I needed. Then the uhm... hard.. *cough* part begins. I copied my old files directory from my backup back to my public html folder and gave it the correct permissions.
After that i ran update.php in order to update my database. That went sooo smoooth. Yay! My site was running Drupal 6.3.
New I just enabled all the contrib modules, and ran update.php again. Happiness.

I had only one problem during the upgrade. My own custom del.icio.us module gave me a SQL error, but with a quick lookup on api.drupal.org I figured that one out in just a couple of minutes. The order of the arguments to cache_set() had changed. A quick fix.