I have run into many people looking for a simple way to apply drupal core updates.
The simplest way to think of this is to see it as replacing all the files in your website except the “sites” directory. The particular way you do this will depend on what access you have to you file system. If you do not manage your own server you may just have an ftp connection in which case you can just decompress the bundle you’ve download, delete the sites directory and then upload to your site overwriting all files.
Below is a way to do it from a redhat compatible Linux system such at scientific Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, CentOS
#change directory to your site
cd /path/to/mysite
#Download the core update eg. 7.26
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.26.tar.gz
#decompress
tar xfvz drupal-7.26.tar.gz
#delete the sites directory from the new core
rm -rf drupal-7.26/sites
#I do not like being prompted :)
unalias cp
cp -r drupal-7.26/* .
cd ../
chown -R apache:apache
I have run into many people looking for a simple way to apply drupal core updates.
The simplest way to think of this is to see it as replacing all the files in your website except the “sites” directory. The particular way you do this will depend on what access you have to you file system. If you do not manage your own server you may just have an ftp connection in which case you can just decompress the bundle you’ve download, delete the sites directory and then upload to your site overwriting all files.
Below is a way to do it from a redhat compatible Linux system such at scientific Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, CentOS
#change directory to your site
cd /path/to/mysite
#Download the core update eg. 7.26
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.26.tar.gz
#decompress
tar xfvz drupal-7.26.tar.gz
#delete the sites directory from the new core
rm -rf drupal-7.26/sites
#I do not like being prompted :)
unalias cp
cp -r drupal-7.26/* .
cd ../
chown -R apache:apache