Drupal/C3/Drupal-Site-Management/Gujarati
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:
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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 -
I am on MySQL 5.6.30, My Drupal Core status is not up-to-date, My database is up-to-date, etc. |
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 check-mark on Add DROP DATABASE statement option. |
06:12 | Put a check-mark 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 to 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 check-mark 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, work 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 the 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 check-box 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 our 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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17:22 | This is Calvin Nikhil Tomy, signing off. Thanks for joining. |