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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Upgrading Contributed Modules


Upgrading contributed modules is considerably easier than upgrading Drupal core.

To update a contributed module, download the latest copy of the module and read the upgrade instructions. For most modules, these instructions are found in a readme.txt or in a separate upgrade.txt file.

Follow any module-specific instructions found in this file. In the overwhelming majority of cases, though, the following steps will work for a clean upgrade:

  1. Log in as UID1; click the Administer | Site configuration | Maintenance link, or navigate to admin/settings/site-maintenance, and put your site into Offline mode

  2. In your sites/all/modules directory, delete the old version of the module.

  3. Upload the new version of the module

  4. In your browser, navigate to http://yoursite.org/update.php and run through the Upgrade wizard

  5. Click the Administer | Site configuration | Maintenance link, or navigate to admin/settings/site-maintenance, and return your site to Online mode

  6. Perform a master backup...