5.7 is not backward compatible with 5.6, so that process won't work. There is a script that attempts to undertake some of the upgrade work from 5.6 to 5.7; see
https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/5.6-to-5.7...
...but, unless your site is very vanilla, a fair bit of manual work will also be required.

Thanks. Is there a way to take just the content from an old 5.6 site to a newer version? I'm not convinced that script will allow me to migrate and I am not familiar enough with the Concrete 5 code base to hack it back in to business.

What has happened is my host has upgraded to PHP 5.6 or 5.7 and now my Concrete 5 site is borked. If I knew of a free host that would support Concrete 5.6 then I'd shift over but I don't know of any.

It's a real pita as I haven't looked at C5 code for a long time and I haven't been following the project so the client who's site is currently in maintenance mode is stuck with no site 😕

Regards,
Craig R Morton
http://www.crmpicco.co.uk

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> On 9 Apr 2017, at 15:21, concrete5 Community <discussions@concretecms.com> wrote:

I think that script is the only thing that comes close, short of basically recreating the site from scratch.

Your host may be willing to downgrade your php version for a limited amount of time to allow you to back up your current site and give the script a go. You may even be able to select the php version you want if your hosting gives you CPanel.

Another option might be to copy your 5.6 site to another host (free trial?) that lets you set the php version. Then try the script. If successful, save the 5.7 version thus created and install it on your original host.

Or maybe you could sweet-talk someone else who has such a host into doing it for you, or giving you access.

Dunno if it could be done using a LAMP/WAMP/XAMP installation on your own computer.

I've never used 5.6 nor that script; hopefully someone who knows what they're talking about will be along soon. :)

Whatever you do, keep your current backup safe, and take another backup of your current site before doing anything else to it.

The upgrade of Concrete 5.5 was proving to be a nightmare so I asked my host to rollback my PHP version to 5.6. Luckily the cPanel allowed me to do it.