- Make a backup of your Drupal instance (database).
- Set your site on maintenance mode.(Click here)
- Delete all the files & folders inside your original Drupal instance except for /sites and its sub-folders.
- Warning: If your Drupal installation is built from a distribution your site will break if you delete the /profiles folder. Don’t delete the profile folder that corresponds to the distribution you installed, for example /profiles/kickstart if you installed Drupal Commerce Kickstart.
- Copy all the folders and files except /sites from inside the extracted Drupal package [tar ball or zip package] into your original Drupal instance location.
- Some updates do not include changes to setting.php and some do. If the update release includes changes to settings.php you will need to replace your old settings.php in …/sites/default/ with the new one, and then edit the site-specific entries (eg database name, user, and password) in the setting file.
- If you have modified files such as .htaccess or robots.txt re-apply those changes to the new files.
- If you have a favicon.ico file that was deleted replace it too
- Login to your site as administrator
- Run “update.php” by navigating to http://yourdrupalsitename/update.php and follow the process to update your Drupal instance
- Disable maintenance mode.
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