By yoeld on

Hello,

I have a small problem when upgrading my site.

I am going through the upgrade.txt instruction file. I have no problem reaching #5. But #6 instructs "Remove all old files and directories from the Drupal installation directory." So I just delete all the files of the directory.

The problem is that at the moment I am removing all the files, my site, which was untill now showing the OFFLINE page, is not reachable anymore.

Only after I go through #7 (installing the new version on the site) the offline page reappears. That means that the site is down for several minutes and that is pretty annoying.

Any suggestion?

Thanks, Yoel

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Comments

bwv’s picture

bwv commented

You could create an index.html page and upload it to your server root. The page could have a message about the site upgrade. You can remove it once your upgrade is complete. (Personally, I do not see the problem with the site being unreachable for a few minutes, but that is another question.)

yoeld’s picture

yoeld commented

Thanks for the index.htm tip.

I was thiking doing something wrong during the upgrade process. Apparently not ....

hershel’s picture

hershel commented

Sounds like your "several minutes" is due to file uploading. If so, what I do is first upload all new files into a subdirectory and then when ready, move all old files into a different subdirectory and then move the new files into the main directory.

That way the only downtime *should be* a few seconds to move files.