By Abhinesh Sharma on

Hi Everyone ,

I mention Some instruction how to update drupal minor version (Drupal 7.1 to Drupal 7.19).

  1. Make a backup of your Drupal instance (code and database)


  2. Download the latest release of your current Drupal version using Drupal.org


  3. Extract the [tar ball or zip] Drupal latest version package.


  4. Login to your site.


  5. Set your Drupal site on maintenance mode (Administration > Configuration > Development > Maintenance mode )


  6. Delete all the files & folders inside your original Drupal instance (old Drupal version) except for /sites folder and any custom files you added elsewhere.


  7. Copy all the folders and files except /sites and extracted Drupal (New Drupal version) package [tar ball or zip package] into your original Drupal (old Drupal version) instance.


  8. If you what to update modules also then download the latest version module and extracted (replace new version module to old version module) on /sites/all/modules folder (Don’t delete or uninstall or Disable old version module). After it don’t hit the current site URL or don’t do any change in module.


  9. If the update release includes changes to settings.php replace old settings.php in .../sites/default/ with the new one, and edit site-specific entries (eg database name, user, and password


  10. If you modified files such as .htaccess or robots.txt re-apply those changes on latest working Drupal.


  11. Do some configuration on update.php:


    • Open settings.php with a text editor.


    • Find the line that says:$update_free_access = FALSE;


    • Change it into:- $update_free_access = TRUE;


    • Once the upgrade is done, $update_free_access must be reverted to FALSE.


    • Go to Administration > Reports > Status report. Verify that everything is working as expected.


    • Ensure that $update_free_access is FALSE in settings.php.



  12. Run update.php by navigating to http://www.drupalsitename/update.php


  13. Click on continue button and update the Drupal version.


  14. Go to Administration > Reports > Status report. Verify that everything is working as expected.


  15. Go to Administration > Configuration > Development > Maintenance mode. Disable maintenance mode



Thanks

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