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Updating Drupal - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Updating Drupal
Your Drupal site is like a living beast. The software that runs it occasionally needs to be tended, so that you can fix bugs, protect against newly discovered security holes, and to add features. You already know how to keep content fresh. this video shows you how to keep Drupal fresh. There are two kinds of update. One is the themes and modules and the other is the Drupal itself. I will start with the hard one, which is updating Drupal itself, and I will do it only on my local machine, but of course, you should adapt these procedures to update Drupal on a server. The first question is how do you find out that your site needs to be updated? Well, if you've been clicking around for a while, eventually you'll come across a warning like this one. It's a security update and it will give you some links where you can go to see what those updates are. So I'll click that link, Available updates, and it tells me that I have a module here that needs to be updated and the core. As I say, I will…
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