Hello.
I'm trying to port a website from an older version of Drupal 4 over to Drupal 6, since the server's being upgraded to run on Debian Lenny and it appears that the Drupal 4 installation we have doesn't work with PHP4. What would be the least painful way to do this? Alternatively, is there a way to make Drupal 4 play nicely with PHP5 or make Lenny play nicely with PHP4?
So far, attempts at doing the upgrade path from Drupal 4 -> Drupal 6 yielded several errors in the site when I got to the latest version of Drupal 4 and an entirely broken site when I upgraded to Drupal 5. Attempts at making Lenny play nicely with PHP4 ended when the latest version of php4-mysql I could find was incompatible with one of the dependencies for mysql/apache2/php4.
What should I do? I talked to my boss, and he said that the preference was on doing this as painlessly as possible, rather than necessarily doing it the best way.
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