The amazing team at Acquia have done it, and added support for upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8. Natively supporting a full migration that bypasses Drupal 7 altogether.
And the best part is that it’s actually quite easy! So, assuming you have a proper webserver setup:
- Install Drush: http://docs.drush.org/en/master/install/
- Create your Drupal database
- Install Drupal and migrate from your previous D6 install:
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$ drush si standard --db-url=mysql:user:pass@hostname/dbname $ drush dl drupal /path/to/html && cd /path/to/html $ drush site-install standard --db-url=mysql://user:password@hostname/db $ drush dl migrate_upgrade features -y $ drush en migrate_upgrade features -y $ drush migrate-upgrade --legacy-db-url=mysql::user:password@hostname/db --legacy-root=http://mysite.dev --legacy-db-prefix=drupal6_ |
Keep in mind there are still a few major drawbacks, so it’s not entirely done at this point:
entityreference,user_referenceandnode_referencewill not have migrated- Also a timesaver: The
bundlecolumn in field tables will correspond to the node type in D8, rather than simplynode
- Also a timesaver: The
- User profile images will more than likely be null and require a re-upload depending on how your previous public/private file system was setup in Drupal 6
- Views will not be migrated as they’ve been restructured and worked directly into Drupal core
Happy migrating, and as always if I can help let me know!
