Maintaining Your Drupal 5 VPS with Tagged Releases
For VPS customers, every new stable tested release gets a new tag, identified by the date on which we release the tag. For example, the release on March 4th, 2009 gets the tag 2009-03-04s. We will add notes to our update page as to what new features, security updates and fixes that we include in each tag.
When we release a tested and stable version that includes new features, we will publish a story to the front page of support.bryght.com, as well as add notes to our update page with a separate page for each release.
Updating to a New Tag
- Backup your database.
- Login to your Drupal site as the first user.
- Become the root user:
sudo su - Go to the www directory:
cd /var/www - Switch to the new release:
svn switch https://svn.bryght.com/dev/svn/bryghtbase/DRUPAL-5/tags/YYYY-MM-DD - Visit the update script on your site and follow the instructions there.
- If your domain is example.com, the URL for the update script will be http://example.com/update.php
Replace YYYY-MM-DD with the tag you wish to switch to.
What Tag Am I Currently Using?
The following commands will give you a URL at the end of which will have the tag you are currently running.
- login to your VPS via SSH
cd /var/wwwsvn info