Drupal 5.11 Update
We just finished applying the Drupal 5.11 update. No new features in this update, it’s just a maintenance release that fixes some bugs and security holes.
In preparing to apply the update I realized a big mistake I made when we made the upgrade from 4.7 to 5.1 last month that I had to correct before applying the update. In Drupal 4.7 all the modules, core and contributed are all located in the /modules directory. In Drupal 5.x only the core modules are stored in /modules, but the contributed modules are (or SHOULD BE) stored in /sites/all/modules. This makes it easy to apply updates because you can simply delete/overwrite all your core modules in /modules, and not worry about the contrib modules stored over at /sites/all/modules. Well it seems that in my excitement after the 4.7 to 5.x upgrade last month, I installed the first few contrib modules in the /modules directory (wrong place).. So before I could do the 5.11 update I had to uninstall, move, and re-install those contrib modules into the right location.
After I moved the contributed modules into the right directories, the 5.11 update was fast and easy.. Backup’d up settings.php – actually, I did a full-file backup to my local PC earlier. Did a backup of the database, then just laid-down the new 5.11 files on top of the old 5.10 files. I even saved myself 45 seconds or so by removing the robots.txt, .htaccess, and settings.php files from the (new) 5.11 source so I would not have to restore those files after doing the update.
Job well-done for me.. Now it’s back to watching TV.
