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Drupal Site Management

Learning Objectives

• View reports
• Update Drupal
• Update modules and themes and
• Restore an older version

System requirement

• Ubuntu Linux Operating System
• Drupal 8 and
• Firefox Web browser

You can use any web browser as per your choice.

Site Management

Site management is about

1. Updating the code behind Drupal which are core, modules, and themes
2. Observing and fixing errors
3. Studying the behaviour of users, etc.

Point to Help menu

If you need additional assistance, you can also consult the Help menu

Point to the reports list

We see a list of the reports that we can get on our Drupal site.

We can also tell it to send an e-mail to us, if there are updates available.

It is highly recommended to do this.

We should look at these, once in a while.

Point to Mysql, Drupal core status and database

For instance -

• I am on MySQL 5.6.30,
• My Drupal Core status is not up-to-date,
• My database is up-to-date, etc.

Point to Top access denied errors and Top page not found errors

These are simple ways to make sure that our site is performing the best it can.

Point to Drupal core 8.1.0

Point to Drupal core 8.1.6

Click on Available updates

We see that the current version of Drupal core is 8.1.0 and the recommended version is 8.1.6

This is the status at the time of the recording.

You may see a different recommended version here.

Note that you need an internet connection for Drupal to find out the current recommended version

Updating Drupal core requires manual downloading of code files and applying it to your site.

The following steps are applicable to Bitnami Drupal stack.

But most of the steps are applicable to any other Drupal installation, as well.

First put your site into Maintenance mode.

For that, go to Configuration and click on Maintenance mode under Development.

When the Maintenance mode is active, only administrators can login.

Others will see a message that the site is under maintenance.

Click on Open PhpMyAdmin

Let us backup the database of the current version.

Open your Bitnami Drupal Stack control window.

Refer the tutorial Installation of Drupal to recollect how to open this control window.

Click on Open PhpMyAdmin button.

Text: Admin & phpmyadmin = root

Type root

Click on Go button.

The default username is root.

Drupal admin password and phpmyadmin password both are the same.

So type the username as root and type your Drupal admin password, then click on Go button.

Compression as gzipped

The filename could be different based on your current version.

Put a checkmark on Add DROP TABLE option.

We should shut down all the servers.

To stop all the running servers, switch to the Bitnami Drupal Stack control window.

Click on the Welcome tab and then on Open Application Folder button.

This will open in the file browser.

We have to create a folder to backup the code for the current version of Drupal.

Go back to the htdocs folder.

This will keep both the database and the code in one place.

This is a backup copy of the old version of the core, in case you have to revert back.

Go back to our htdocs folder.

Go to: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal

Point to Drupal core 8.1.6

Open your web browser and go the link shown: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal

Download the latest recommended version of Drupal 8.

At the time of this recording it is Drupal core 8.1.6.

This version could be different at the time of your viewing.

Move drupal-8.1.6.zip file to

htdocs folder

drupal-8.1.6.zip file is provided in the Code files link in the webpage of this tutorial.

If you don’t have internet connection, please download and use it.

Point to drupal-8.1.6 folder

Unzip the file. This will create a folder drupal-8.1.6 in the htdocs folder.

• move the folders core and vendor
• and all the other regular files to the htdocs folder.

Switch to the Bitnami Drupal Stack control window.

Click Start All button

Click Go to Application, Access Drupal link

Visit our site by clicking on the Welcome tab, Go to Application button and Access Drupal link.

Point to Drupal 8.1.6

Point to database up to date

Here we can confirm the Drupal version number and that it is the latest one.

But our database is out-of-date.

Every time there is a core, module, or a theme update, the database has to be updated.

Let us learn to update the database.

Go to Extend menu and click on update script link.

Point to pending updates

It says that we have some pending updates. For you it may be different.

If there are no errors, we have successfully updated the core.

Click on the Go online link.

Click on Save configuration button.

This will bring back to the site to online mode for all the users.

The steps discussed so far works for Bitnami installation.

If you have used other methods, most of the steps will be the same except for the Bitnami sections.

<<PAUSE>>

This is easy compared to core update because Drupal will do this on a click of a button.

Sometimes we will have only modules or themes updates without any core update.

Click on Reports menu and then Available updates.

Select them all.

Point to the checkbox

Make sure the checkbox is on for performing updates in maintenance mode.

This will update the code and bring back thesite to online mode.

Click on the Run database updates link.

If you have not backed up the database, do it as we did before.

This will update the database like we did for the core update.

Drupal will normally bring the site back to online mode.

If this is not the case, you will see an option at the top of the page to Go online.

Point to Drupal core, Modules and Themes

Finally let us check everything this is up to date.

Click on Reports menu and Available updates.

Here we can see our Drupal core, Modules and Themes everything is up-to-date.

<<PAUSE>>

In case our update fails for some reason you don’t know, we can go back to the previous version.

For this, we need to restore the old core and database.

Put the site into Maintenance mode.

Stop all the servers from the Drupal Stack Control window.

Open our htdocs folder.

Open drupal-8.1.0 folder

Start the Apache and MySQL servers from the Drupal Stack Control window.

Restoring old database.

Open the phpmyadmin page from the Drupal Stack Control window.

Choose the sql file

Here choose the backup database file.

Click on Reports menu and Status report

Point to 8.1.0

The final step is checking whether we are back to the old version.

Switch to our Drupal site.

Click on Reports menu and Status report.

Here you can see that now our Drupal version is 8.1.0.

We did not make a copy of it in Step 6, so we will not see the old versions here.

Summary

In this tutorial we have learnt about important aspects of Site management

• Viewing and analysing reports
• Backing up database and code
• Updating Drupal core
• Updating modules and themes and
• Restoring a backed up version

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Acknowledgement

• NMEICT, Ministry of Human Resource Development and
• NVLI, Ministry of Culture

Government of India.

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