By Muskwa on

Hi,
I have installed Drupal 5.1 recently and during the development the new version became available. I would like to patch (I am afraid of upgrade) but I don't know how to apply the patch. If I try to download it, it just opens in a browser and there is a text file. What can I do?

Thanks for your help!

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vm commented

patching isn't for the faint of heart.

My suggestion, create a server enbvironment on your local machine, by installed WAMP or XAMP and pull down your Drupal files. Then export your DB on your live server and import it into your local installation. Then upgrade on youre local machine, If all goes well, you will be fine.

read: http://drupal.org/best-practices

However, fearing upgdates isn't really necessary, if you backup your DB and your files, then you can always save yourself.

if you really want to patch. youll need to begin reading here : http://drupal.org/patch/apply
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Muskwa commented

Thank you for your answer. I have read that topic, but I don't understand a word... I have just a shared hosting plan in my hosting provider... all I have access to is an ftp access and phpMyAdmin...????

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vm commented

have just a shared hosting plan in my hosting provider

which is why I suggested installing a server environment on your local machine. meaning, your PC or Mac.
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vm commented

DP

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vm commented

DP

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arzajac commented

You will run a much lower risk of making mistakes (and thus causing problems) if you just copy the new drupal version (5.2) over to where the old one(5.1) was. Take it folder by folder. Don't delete any of the modules or themes you installed yourself. Only a few changes were made to the core files so it's not that big a deal of an upgrade.

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cog.rusty commented

Notice that even if you patch Drupal (instead of replacing the files) you still need to run update.php.

There is no way to avoid updating the database.