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Aljaml.com is one of the oldest Arabic Drupal news sites. It started back in 2005 using a forked version of Drupal 4.6, optimized for performance and for supporting Arabic content. During the past 6 years, the publishers and their community were very happy with the dazzling speed, the stability and security of their portal. Recently, the Site’s audience demanded a modern interface with sharing and social bookmarking features. The management did not want to sacrifice their reputation as the fastest Arabic news site, so they made the strategic decision to stay on Drupal, and they contracted us at EGHNA.
The migration process
The first challenge was the migration of 60K nodes to Drupal 6. Version migrations with the Drupal upgrade scripts produced some errors, possibly because of the changes in the original database. So we decided to create a custom database upgrade script to import content into the new Drupal 6 database. Later on, this same script was used to automatically pull data from the live site and push it into the new site during the beta and parallel operation phase.
The migration process included converting nodes created with the old image module into the new CCK and Image field architecture.
After migrating the data, existing content needed to be tagged with the new taxonomy terms, the autotag module was a great help, although it did not complete the task in some runs due to some unknown reasons. اقرأ المزيد