Modules update

• Open admin page:

…/admin/reports/updates

• Click Check manually to update status.

Result example:

• SSH login on drupal server
• download

wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/image-6.x-1.2.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/views-6.x-2.16.tar.gz

• expand tar

tar -xvzf image-6.x-1.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf views-6.x-2.16.tar.gz

• read INSTALL.txt and README.txt

• place site offline

.../admin/settings/site-maintenance

• backup mudule dir

mv /usr/share/rootsitedir/sites/all/modules/image modbackup/
mv /usr/share/rootsitedir/sites/all/modules/views modbackup/

• copy new files

mv image /usr/share/rootsitedir/sites/all/modules/
mv views /usr/share/rootsitedir/sites/all/modules/
chown -R root:admin /usr/share/rootsitedir/sites/all/modules/image
chown -R root:admin /usr/share/rootsitedir/sites/all/modules/views

• run update.php
• verify update result

.../admin/reports/updates

• place site online

.../admin/settings/site-maintenance