{"id":41735,"date":"2015-01-28T03:09:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T08:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=41735"},"modified":"2020-02-03T03:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T08:25:44","slug":"drupal-7-x-how-to-update-the-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/drupal-7-x-how-to-update-the-engine.html","title":{"rendered":"Drupal 7.x. How to update the engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our support team is glad to present you our new tutorial that will show you how to update Drupal engine<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n

Drupal 7.x. How to update the engine<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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    Open official Drupal site at drupal.org <\/a><\/strong> to download the latest stable release of Drupal engine in .zip <\/strong> format: <\/p>\r\n

    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_1\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n

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    Go to your FTP or Hosting cPanel Filemanager <\/strong> and open your site root folder there (public_html, www, etc.). Create “drupal_new”<\/strong> folder there. If your site is located in folder, named drupal<\/strong> for example, you will have two folders in the same directory: drupal<\/strong> – current site location and drupal_new<\/strong>, that is empty at the moment:<\/p>\r\n

    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_2\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n

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    Upload the latest Drupal archive to this folder and extract it <\/strong> if you are using Cpanel. Otherwise you may upload unzipped files via FTP:\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n

    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_3\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n

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    Copy .htacess<\/strong> file and “site” <\/strong> folder from your current site location to this new directory, allowing files overwriting.\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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    Go to drupal_new\/sites\/default<\/strong> directory and locate settings.php <\/strong> file there. Open it for editing:\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n

    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_4\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n

  6. \r\n

    Locate line of code that says:<\/p>\r\n

    $update_free_access=FALSE;<\/pre>\r\n
    Change it to:<\/p>\r\n
    $update_free_access=TRUE;<\/pre>\r\n
    to allow access to update script. Save changes applied:<\/p>\r\n
    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_5\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n
  7. \r\n
    Open your browser and type http:\/\/yourwebsiteurl\/drupal_new\/update.php <\/strong> in address bar:\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
  8. \r\n
    Click on Continue <\/strong> button if you’re ready with site backup. You may check this detailed guide <\/a> on how to backup your data:\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n
    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_6\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n
  9. \r\n
    Click on Apply pending updates <\/strong> button:\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n
    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_7\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n
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    Go back to drupal_new –> sites –> default<\/strong> to edit  settings.php <\/strong> file once again. Change TRUE<\/strong> back to FALSE<\/strong> same way as in step 6.\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
  11. \r\n
    Open http:\/\/yourwebsiteurl\/drupal_new\/<\/strong> in browser to check if the site works properly.\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
  12. \r\n
    If the site appears properly, go to your FTP or CPanel, rename current site location from drupal<\/strong> to drupal_old<\/strong> and drupal_new<\/strong> to drupal<\/strong>.\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n
  13. \r\n
    Open your site after renaming (it will be http:\/\/yourwebsiteurl\/drupal<\/strong>) and log into admin panel. Go to Reports –> Available Updates<\/strong>. In case all the steps were performed properly, you will see that Drupal core is up to date, you have successfully updated it to the latest version.\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n
    \"11.Drupal.How_to_update_engine_8\"<\/a>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n
    Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n
    Drupal 7.x. How to update the engine<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n
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    Our support team is glad to present you our new tutorial that will show you how to  update Drupal engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":43344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[723],"tags":[593,563,610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86192,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41735\/revisions\/86192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}