Hi,
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.
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.
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
The instructions from the UPGRADE.txt file are
below.
Thanks,
--ross
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MINOR VERSION UPDATES
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To update from one minor 7.x version of Drupal
to any later 7.x version, after
following the instructions in the INTRODUCTION
section at the top of this file:
1. Log in as a user with the permission
"Administer software updates".
2. Go to Administration > Configuration
> Development > Maintenance mode.
Enable the "Put site into maintenance mode"
checkbox and save the
configuration.
3. Remove all old core files and directories,
except for the 'sites' directory
and any custom files you added elsewhere.
If you made modifications to files like
.htaccess or robots.txt, you will
need to re-apply them from your backup,
after the new files are in place.
Sometimes an update includes changes to
settings.php (this will be noted in
the release announcement). If that's the
case, replace your old settings.php
with the new one, and copy the
site-specific entries (especially the lines
giving the database name, user, and
password) from the old settings.php to
the new settings.php.
4. Download the latest Drupal 7.x release from
http://drupal.org
to a
directory outside of your web root. Extract
the archive and copy the files
into your Drupal directory.
On a typical Unix/Linux command line, use
the following commands to download
and extract:
wget
http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-x.y.tar.gz
tar -zxvf drupal-x.y.tar.gz
This creates a new directory drupal-x.y/
containing all Drupal files and
directories. Copy the files into your
Drupal installation directory:
cp -R drupal-x.y/* drupal-x.y/.htaccess
/path/to/your/installation
If you do not have command line access to
your server, download the archive
from
http://drupal.org using
your web browser, extract it, and then use an
FTP client to upload the files to your web
root.
5. Re-apply any modifications to files such as
.htaccess or robots.txt.
6. Run update.php by visiting
http://www.example.com/update.php
(replace
www.example.com
with your domain name). This will update the
core database
tables.
If you are unable to access update.php do
the following:
- Open settings.php with a text editor.
- Find the line that says:
$update_free_access = FALSE;
- Change it into:
$update_free_access = TRUE;
- Once the upgrade is done,
$update_free_access must be reverted to FALSE.
7. Go to Administration > Reports >
Status report. Verify that everything is
working as expected.
8. Ensure that $update_free_access is FALSE in
settings.php.
9. Go to Administration > Configuration
> Development > Maintenance mode.
Disable the "Put site into maintenance
mode" checkbox and save the
configuration.