By teatephi on

I've just had openpublish distribution installed for me on my new server. I need to upgrade it to the drupal core 7.21.
I'm reading the upgrade text, and it says :
3. Remove all old core files and directories, except for the 'sites' directory
and any custom files you added elsewhere.
Do I remove it from the ADMIN panel or from filezilla? and what core files exactly do I need to remove?
Scared I'm going to crash it.

Any HELP is much appreciated ( I put the site in maintenance mode).
Thanks
Machelle

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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vm commented

backing up reduces fear and is a best practice.

you cannot delete files or folders from the drupal admin panel. Delete using your server's file manager, an ftp tool (yes filezilla would suffice), or the command line. Whatever you are most comfortable with.

as far as what core files you need to remove: as the step states 'all' except for the /sites/ folder. The newly updated release contains the entire core.

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teatephi commented

What about the openpublish distro files? Are they all in one folder or spread out all over the place?

In the public_html I found a folder called OpenPublish and a sites folder.

Backing up now. From my other site, it mattered whether you backed up in bitrate or something. I just downloaded it.

edit: Ok basically everything in the Public_html folder is what I'm supposed to delete (except OpenPublish file & folder and /sites). There is only one file I'm not sure is part of the core or OP, it is PATCHES.txt

Should that one be deleted as well?

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vm commented

PATCHES.txt is not distributed with core.

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teatephi commented

I found another file in profiles for OP & I accidentally deleted it. I have it backed up though. Hope there aren't more. It's going to be a miracle if I don't mess this up.

Should I upload the *new* sites folder? Or just leave the old one?

EDIT: ERROR:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/teatephi/public_html/modules/overlay/overlay.module on line 99

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' in /home/teatephi/public_html/modules/overlay/overlay.module on line 99

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teatephi commented

I did a search, and a one had a similar error. Is there a fix? I cannot run update.php

Figured out that the file in question didn't upload properly. I just re-uploaded the file and whammo everything is up and running! whew.

Now, on to build the site and understand the software.