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font-size: 14px;" lang="x-western">Hi, <br>
<br>
I'm new to Drupal. I installed Drupal 7.2 on Windows a few weeks
ago. Once I saw the security alert for 7.2 and .3, I've been
trying to upgrade to 7.4. However, I must be missing something
basic. <br>
<br>
I've tried following the upgrading instructions in the
UPGRADE.txt file that came with the 7.4 release. I get to step
6, "Run update.php ...," but I'm not able to successfully
complete the update. I get to the "Review updates" page, but it
says "No pending updates," and there is no button to continue to
the "Run updates" step. I've even tried setting
"$update_free_access = TRUE;" in the "settings.php" file, think
that this might help. <br>
<br>
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? <br>
<br>
The instructions from the UPGRADE.txt file are below. <br>
<br>
Thanks, <br>
--ross <br>
<br>
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MINOR VERSION UPDATES <br>
--------------------- <br>
To update from one minor 7.x version of Drupal to any later 7.x
version, after <br>
following the instructions in the INTRODUCTION section at the
top of this file: <br>
<br>
1. Log in as a user with the permission "Administer software
updates". <br>
<br>
2. Go to Administration > Configuration > Development >
Maintenance mode. <br>
Enable the "Put site into maintenance mode" checkbox and save
the <br>
configuration. <br>
<br>
3. Remove all old core files and directories, except for the
'sites' directory <br>
and any custom files you added elsewhere. <br>
<br>
If you made modifications to files like .htaccess or
robots.txt, you will <br>
need to re-apply them from your backup, after the new files
are in place. <br>
<br>
Sometimes an update includes changes to settings.php (this
will be noted in <br>
the release announcement). If that's the case, replace your
old settings.php <br>
with the new one, and copy the site-specific entries
(especially the lines <br>
giving the database name, user, and password) from the old
settings.php to <br>
the new settings.php. <br>
<br>
4. Download the latest Drupal 7.x release from <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drupal.org">http://drupal.org</a>
to a <br>
directory outside of your web root. Extract the archive and
copy the files <br>
into your Drupal directory. <br>
<br>
On a typical Unix/Linux command line, use the following
commands to download <br>
and extract: <br>
<br>
wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-x.y.tar.gz">http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-x.y.tar.gz</a>
<br>
tar -zxvf drupal-x.y.tar.gz <br>
<br>
This creates a new directory drupal-x.y/ containing all
Drupal files and <br>
directories. Copy the files into your Drupal installation
directory: <br>
<br>
cp -R drupal-x.y/* drupal-x.y/.htaccess
/path/to/your/installation <br>
<br>
If you do not have command line access to your server,
download the archive <br>
from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://drupal.org">http://drupal.org</a> using your web
browser, extract it, and then use an <br>
FTP client to upload the files to your web root. <br>
<br>
5. Re-apply any modifications to files such as .htaccess or
robots.txt. <br>
<br>
6. Run update.php by visiting <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.example.com/update.php">http://www.example.com/update.php</a>
(replace <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.example.com">www.example.com</a> with your
domain name). This will update the core database <br>
tables. <br>
<br>
If you are unable to access update.php do the following: <br>
<br>
- Open settings.php with a text editor. <br>
<br>
- Find the line that says: <br>
$update_free_access = FALSE; <br>
<br>
- Change it into: <br>
$update_free_access = TRUE; <br>
<br>
- Once the upgrade is done, $update_free_access must be
reverted to FALSE. <br>
<br>
7. Go to Administration > Reports > Status report. Verify
that everything is <br>
working as expected. <br>
<br>
8. Ensure that $update_free_access is FALSE in settings.php. <br>
<br>
9. Go to Administration > Configuration > Development >
Maintenance mode. <br>
Disable the "Put site into maintenance mode" checkbox and
save the <br>
configuration. <br>
<br>
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