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Update Drupal from version 7.31 to version 7.36

• download version 7.36
  
  • drupal-7.36.tar.gz
  • drupal-7.36.zip

• Create tarball snapshot backup of Fedora, of MySQL and Drupal
  

  Code Block
  # $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh # /etc/init.d/mysql stop # /etc/init.d/apache stop # cd /var/lib # tar -cvzf mysql-backup.tar.gz mysql # cd /var/www # tar -cvzf drupal-7.31-backup.tar.gz drupal

• download version 7.36

  • drupal-7.36.tar.gz
  • drupal-7.36.zip

• install drupal 7.36 (check milestone 2 - Installing Drupal for more details)

  Code Block
  # mv drupal drupal-7.31-old # unzip drupal-7.36.zip # mv drupal-7.36.zip drupal # cd drupal-7.31-old # rsync -va sites /var/www/drupal # rsync -va libraries /var/www/drupal # rsync -va jwplayer /var/www/drupal # rsync -va php /var/www/drupal # /etc/init.d/mysql start # $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/startup.sh # /etc/init.d/apache start

• Access the Reports menu of your Islandora site, and proceed to do any further updates it may require. http://localhost/node#overlay=admin/reports

• Test the updated modules (check the test section of the milestone 2 - Installing Drupal for more details)
  

• Create a new milestone 2 snapshot backup of your site:

  Code Block
  # $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh # /etc/init.d/mysql stop # /etc/init.d/apache stop # cd /usr/local # tar -cvzf fedora-milestone2.tar.gz fedora # cd /var/lib # tar -cvzf mysql-milestone2.tar.gz mysql # cd /var/www # tar -cvzf drupal-milestone2.tar.gz drupal # /etc/init.d/mysql start # $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/startup.sh # /etc/init.d/apache start

   

   

Update Islandora from version 7.x-1.3 to version 7.x-1.5

• Create tarball snapshot backup of MySQL and Drupal

# $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
# /etc/init.d/apache stop

# cd /var/lib 
# tar -cvzf mysql-backup.tar.gz mysql
# cd /var/www
# tar -cvzf drupal-7.31-backup.tar.gz drupal
 
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
# $FEDORA_HOME/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
# /etc/init.d/apache start

• Access the Modules section of Drupal and take note of all Islandora modules, solutions packs and libraries that are loaded. You could just as well make a recursive list of the contents of /var/www/sites
• Return to the Modules section of Drupal and disable all Islandora modules, solutions packs and libraries that are loaded. You may have to do this in 5 or 6 rounds, until you are able to disable the Islandora core module, and save teh configuration.
• Then download and install version 7.x-1.5 of the Essential Modules, as described on the milestone 5 - Installing the Islandora Essential Modules section. Proceed to test those modules.