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CHAPTER 6 MAINTAINING YOUR SITE 211 Figure 6-4. The Drupal update screen Test Your Site After running the update.php script, you should test your site (with the contributed modules still turned off) and confirm that things are alright. If you find any bugs or issues at this point, it is better to address them before getting to the business of updating the contributed modules, as everything is dependent on the core system. Update Contributed Modules Once the Drupal core is up and running, it is time to update the contributed modules. Make sure you download the version of the modules that corresponds to your new, updated Drupal installation. For each module, look for README.txt, UPDATE.txt, and INSTALL.txtfiles to address how to go about updating to the current version. The difficulty here is that it is up to the module s author(s) and the community at large to provide the information and scripts necessary to do an update. Expect to find different levels of completeness and support among the contributed modules. For popular modules by well-respected module authors, this won t be a problem, and most of the time, updates will be relatively painless. Regardless, you should update your contributed modules one at a time, testing the functionality of each one before moving on to the next. In the ideal case, you will do this on your test site before attempting the updates on a production site.
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