1. Make a backup of your Drupal instance.<\/p>\n
2. Download the latest release of your current Drupal version.<\/p>\n
3. Extract the [tar ball or zip] Drupal package.<\/p>\n
4. Set your site on maintenance mode<\/p>\n
5. Delete all the files & folders inside your original Drupal instance except for \/sites folder and any custom files you added elsewhere.<\/p>\n
6. Copy all the folders and files except \/sites from inside the extracted Drupal package [tar ball or zip package] into your original Drupal instance.<\/p>\n
7. If the update release includes changes to settings.php replace old settings.php in …\/sites\/default\/ with the new one, and edit site-specific entries (eg database name, user, and password)<\/p>\n
8. If you modified files such as .htaccess or robots.txt re-apply those changes to the new files.<\/p>\n
9. Login to your site as administrator or as user no 1 ==> http:\/\/www.site.com\/drupal717\/?q=user<\/p>\n
10. Run update.php by navigating to http:\/\/…yourdrupalsitename\/update.php<\/p>\n
11. Follow the process to update your Drupal instance<\/p>\n
12. Disable maintenance mode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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