Introduction

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This guide will show you how to migrate a site that meets the following criteria to the latest version of Drupal:


Current Host
How Site Was Created
Additional Requirements
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 Note

This guide is intended for those who do not have access to Multidev. If you do have access, use Upgrade a Drupal Site with Multidev to the latest version of Drupal Using Multidev instead.

If this is not your scenario, see Drupal Migration Guides for additional upgrade paths.

 Note

This upgrade migrates your existing site to a new site. The new site will not maintain your site’s commit history.

This doc uses the following aliases:

  • Alias: D8_SITE
    • Site Name: best-drupal8-site-ever
  • Alias: DRUPAL_SITE
    • Site Name: best-drupal-site-ever

Requirements

Confirm that your site meets the following requirements before you continue:

  • The site cannot be set to use an empty upstream.

  • The site does not use another package and library manager like Ludwig.