Drupal 7 Security Update 7.19 to 7.20

Key Takeaways

hey guys this is a very short tutorial on just updating your Drupal 7 site to a newer version It's a a security update so it's not a major update like Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 I think I have 7.19 installed and I'm going to update to 7.20 so I'm logged in as admin and this is just a it's a drug rehabilitation directory uh it's one of my websites so to update you obviously you log in as admin and then if you no matter where you go if we go to configuration if you if your site is not up to date you'll have this red uh warning telling you to to update so we can see the available update and here we have the dro these are the modules that aren't up to date and these are the core updates so you'll see I have one 7 .19 installed and they recommend 7.20 and what you want to do is just download the latest version and you can do that just by clicking on this Drupal core link and it'll automatically take you to the newest version and you want to download you can do either the tall or the zip file I'm going to download the zip file all right so now you have the new you have the new files for the new package and you need to upload it to your server so so I'm going to open filezilla you can use uh another FTP client or your file manager for your host or whatever and I'm going to connect to my website now this is the root of my Drupal install so I'm going to go and get the update the updated zip file that I just downloaded which is right here Drupal 7 and I'm going to extract it so now you should have this folder called Drupal 7.20 and then you'll see these files includes misk modules they're all here includes misk modules and so you just got to overwrite everything um I don't know if I mentioned this but you should definitely definitely do a backup before you do this do a backup of all your site files and then back up your database uh you can do that through either PHP my admin or you can do it an easier way and download the backup and migrate plugin uh module sorry uh for Drupal and it's pretty much just a oneclick data database update so definitely back up and I'm just going to check these files cuz sometimes things can happen you'll see we have site all Sites all and then if you go in your themes folder I'm using the responsive theme so just make sure that you you don't have any anything in the in the update you downloaded any themes custom themes cuz you don't want to write overwrite anything so um yeah now we can do we're just going to drag it over select everything drag it over and it's going to prompt you to ask if you want to overwrite I'm just going to always allow this so this is going to take a while so I'm going to pause the video and I'll be back after everything uploads all right so I'm back guys and everything's uploaded and I'm going to my site and I'll go to configuration and you'll see that red bar is gone and we can also click on report ports up here and go to available update and you'll see our Drupal core is updated to 7.20 so very easy to update just make sure I can't you have to back up back up all your files and databases before you do any kind of update like this because it can mess up some stuff depending on um what modules you're using or what code you've customized or anything like that and then just go through and make sure all the pages are all accessible do a search just to make sure everything's working views this website's using views so make sure it's all working yeah all right so that's how you update you do a simple security update on Drupal 7