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'''Site management''' is about | '''Site management''' is about | ||
| − | + | Updating the code behind '''Drupal''' which are '''core, modules''', and '''themes''' | |
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| − | | Observing and fixing errors | + | | Observing and fixing errors Studying the behaviour of users, etc. |
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| − | | | + | |Open our website which we created earlier. |
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Revision as of 16:07, 30 August 2016
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on Drupal Site Management. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial we will learn to
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| 00:18 | To record this tutorial, I am using
You can use any web browser as per your choice. |
| 00:33 | What is Site management?
Site management is about Updating the code behind Drupal which are core, modules, and themes |
| 00:44 | Observing and fixing errors Studying the behaviour of users, etc. |
| 00:51 | Open our website which we created earlier. |
| 00:56 | The starting point of site management is the Reports menu.If you need additional assistance, you can also consult the Help menu |
| 01:07 | Click on Reports.We see a list of the reports that we can get on our Drupal site. |
| 01:14 | Click on Available Updates. |
| 01:17 | If anything is in red background, that means there is a security update and we should update it soon. |
| 01:25 | If it is in yellow, then it is not a security update, but there is an improved version available. |
| 01:33 | On the Settings tab, we can tell Drupal how frequently to check for updates. |
| 01:40 | We can also tell it to send an e-mail to us, if there are updates available. It is highly recommended to do this. |
| 01:50 | Under Reports, the Recent log messages gives us a list of errors found by Drupal.We should look at these, once in a while. |
| 02:01 | Under Reports, the Status report shows installation or configuration problems recognized by Drupal. |
| 02:10 | For instance -
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| 02:25 | Under Reports, the Top access denied errors and Top page not found errors are also important. |
| 02:34 | These are simple ways to make sure that our site is performing the best it can. |
| 02:41 | Top search phrases provides the frequently used words in the search forms of your site. |
| 02:49 | Understanding the reporting section of our Drupal website is the first step in maintaining our site. |
| 02:57 | Next let us learn to update Drupal. |
| 03:01 | Click on Available updates |
| 03:04 | We see that the current version of Drupal core is 8.1.0 and the recommended version is 8.1.6 |
| 03:15 | This is the status at the time of the recording. |
| 03:20 | You may see a different recommended version here. |
| 03:24 | Note that you need an internet connection for Drupal to find out the current recommended version |
| 03:32 | Updating Drupal core requires manual downloading of code files and applying it to your site. |
| 03:40 | We will see the upgrading process step by step. |
| 03:45 | The following steps are applicable to Bitnami Drupal stack. |
| 03:50 | But most of the steps are applicable to any other Drupal installation, as well. |
| 03:57 | Step No 1
First put your site into Maintenance mode. |
| 04:03 | For that, go to Configuration and click on Maintenance mode under Development. |
| 04:11 | Check the option to Put site into maintenance mode. |
| 04:16 | Click on Save configuration button. |
| 04:19 | When the Maintenance mode is active, only administrators can login. |
| 04:26 | In case you logged out admin by mistake, you can login at the URL of your homepage followed by /user. |
| 04:37 | Others will see a message that the site is under maintenance. |
| 04:42 | Step No 2.
Let us backup the database of the current version. |
| 04:47 | Open your Bitnami Drupal Stack control window. |
| 04:52 | Refer the tutorial Installation of Drupal to recollect how to open this control window. |
| 05:00 | Click on Open PhpMyAdmin button. |
| 05:05 | We are redirected to the phpmyadmin page. |
| 05:10 | The default username is root. |
| 05:13 | Drupal admin password and phpmyadmin password both are the same. |
| 05:20 | So type the username as root and type your Drupal admin password, then click on Go button. |
| 05:29 | To take a backup, first click on Export button at the top panel. |
| 05:36 | Then choose the Export method as Custom. |
| 05:40 | Select bitnami_drupal8 under the Database list. |
| 05:45 | Under the Output section, give the filename template as drupal-8.1.0 and set the Compression as gzipped. |
| 05:58 | The filename could be different based on your current version. |
| 06:03 | Under the section Object creation options, put a checkmark on Add DROP DATABASE statement option. |
| 06:12 | Put a checkmark on Add DROP TABLE option. |
| 06:16 | Scroll down and click on Go button at the bottom. |
| 06:21 | Click on OK button to save the file. |
| 06:25 | Go to your Downloads folder and check for the backup file drupal-8.1.0.sql.gz. |
| 06:36 | Step No 3
.We should shut down all the servers. |
| 06:42 | To stop all the running servers, switch to the Bitnami Drupal Stack control window. |
| 06:49 | Click on the Manage Servers tab and then click on the Stop All button. |
| 06:56 | Step No 4.
Click on the Welcome tab and then on Open Application Folder button. |
| 07:04 | This will open in the file browser. |
| 07:07 | Navigate to the folders apps, then drupal and finally htdocs. |
| 07:15 | Step No 5.
We have to create a folder to backup the code for the current version of Drupal. |
| 07:24 | Name this folder with the current version number. |
| 07:29 | Next move the backup database file to the drupal-8.1.0 folder. |
| 07:36 | Step No 6.
Go back to the htdocs folder. |
| 07:42 | Next move the folders core and vendor and all the other files by cut and pasting into the backup folder drupal-8.1.0. |
| 07:55 | This will keep both the database and the code in one place. |
| 08:00 | This is a backup copy of the old version of the core, in case you have to revert back. |
| 08:07 | Step No 7.
Go back to our htdocs folder. |
| 08:13 | Next we have to download the latest version of Drupal. |
| 08:18 | Open your web browser and go the link shown: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal |
| 08:24 | Download the latest recommended version of Drupal 8. |
| 08:28 | At the time of this recording it is Drupal core 8.1.6. |
| 08:35 | This version could be different at the time of your viewing. |
| 08:40 | Click on it to open. |
| 08:43 | Click on the tar.gz or zip file to download. |
| 08:49 | Click on the OK button to save it. |
| 08:53 | Now go to your Downloads folder and move the drupal zip file to your htdocs folder. |
| 09:01 | drupal-8.1.6.zip file is provided in the Code files link in the webpage of this tutorial. |
| 09:11 | If you don’t have internet connection, please download and use it. |
| 09:18 | Step No 8.
Unzip the file. This will create a folder drupal-8.1.6 in the htdocs folder. |
| 09:30 | Double click on it to open. |
| 09:34 | From the new Drupal folder
move the folders core and vendor and all the other regular files to the htdocs folder. |
| 09:44 | Step No 9.
Switch to the Bitnami Drupal Stack control window. |
| 09:51 | Now go to Manage Servers tab and start all the servers by clicking on the Start All button. |
| 10:00 | Step No 10.
Visit our site by clicking on the Welcome tab, Go to Application button and Access Drupal link. |
| 10:12 | Go to Reports and Status report. |
| 10:17 | Here we can confirm the Drupal version number and that it is the latest one. |
| 10:24 | But our database is out-of-date. |
| 10:27 | Every time there is a core, module, or a theme update, the database has to be updated. |
| 10:36 | Step No 11.
Let us learn to update the database. |
| 10:42 | Go to Extend menu and click on update script link. |
| 10:47 | Click on Continue button. |
| 10:51 | It says that we have some pending updates. For you it may be different. |
| 10:58 | Click on Apply pending updates button. |
| 11:04 | Now click on Administration pages link. |
| 11:08 | If there are no errors, we have successfully updated the core. |
| 11:14 | Step No 12:
Click on the Go online link. |
| 11:18 | Remove the checkmark to Put site to maintenance mode option. |
| 11:25 | Click on Save configuration button. |
| 11:29 | This will bring back to the site to online mode for all the users. |
| 11:34 | The steps discussed so far works for Bitnami installation. |
| 11:40 | If you have used other methods, most of the steps will be the same except for the Bitnami sections. |
| 11:48 | Now let us learn to update themes and modules. |
| 11:53 | This is easy compared to core update because Drupal will do this on a click of a button. |
| 12:01 | Sometimes we will have only modules or themes updates without any core update. |
| 12:09 | Step No 1:
Click on Reports menu and then Available updates. |
| 12:15 | Click on Update tab. |
| 12:19 | Here we can see that we have to update a few themes and modules. |
| 12:25 | Select them all. |
| 12:28 | Then click on Download these updates button. |
| 12:33 | Make sure the checkbox is on for performing updates in maintenance mode. |
| 12:39 | Click on Continue button to apply the updates. |
| 12:43 | This will update the code and bring back thesite to online mode. |
| 12:49 | Step No 2.
Click on the Run database updates link. |
| 12:55 | If you have not backed up the database, do it as we did before. |
| 13:01 | Click on the Continue button. |
| 13:04 | This will update the database like we did for the core update. |
| 13:09 | Click on the Apply pending updates button. |
| 13:14 | Click on the Administration pages link. |
| 13:18 | Drupal will normally bring the site back to online mode. |
| 13:24 | If this is not the case, you will see an option at the top of the page to Go online. |
| 13:33 | Step No 3.
Finally let us check everything this is up to date. |
| 13:39 | Click on Reports menu and Available updates. |
| 13:44 | Here we can see our Drupal core, Modules and Themes everything is up-to-date. |
| 13:51 | Next let us learn how to revert our old version. |
| 13:56 | In case our update fails for some reason you don’t know, we can go back to the previous version. |
| 14:05 | For this, we need to restore the old core and database. |
| 14:10 | Step No 1.
Put the site into Maintenance mode. |
| 14:17 | Step No 2.
Stop all the servers from the Drupal Stack Control window. |
| 14:25 | Step No 3.
Open our htdocs folder. |
| 14:30 | Move the folders core and vendor and other regular files into the drupal-8.1.6 folder. |
| 14:40 | Go back to the htdocs folder and open the previous version folder. |
| 14:44 | Then move the folders core and vendor and other regular files from drupal-8.1.0 to htdocs folder. |
| 15:00 | Step No 4.
Start the Apache and MySQL servers from the Drupal Stack Control window. |
| 15:11 | Step No 5.
Restoring old database. |
| 05:15 | Open the phpmyadmin page from the Drupal Stack Control window. |
| 15:23 | Click on the Import button at the top panel. |
| 15:27 | Click on the Browse button. |
| 15:30 | Here choose the backup database file. |
| 15:34 | Then click on the Go button at the bottom. |
| 15:38 | Step No 6.
The final step is checking whether we are back to the old version. |
| 15:45 | Switch to our Drupal site. |
| 15:49 | Click on Reports menu and Status report. |
| 15:52 | Here you can see that now our Drupal version is 8.1.0. |
| 15:59 | Note that we can revert only the core and database to the old version. |
| 16:05 | The modules and themes were updated by Drupal. |
| 16:10 | We did not make a copy of it in Step 6, so we will not see the old versions here. |
| 16:18 | With this we come to the end of this tutorial. |
| 16:22 | Let us summarize. |
| 16:25 | In this tutorial we have learnt about important aspects of Site management
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| 16:39 | * Updating Drupal core
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| 17:22 | This is Calvin Nikhil Tomy signing off.Thanks for joining. |
