Posted by jhodgdon on April 26, 2018 at 2:31pm
Start:
2018-05-17 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next daytime meeting of the Spokane Drupal User Group!
- When
- Thursday, May 17, 2018, 10 AM to noon
We meet on the 2nd or 3rd Thursday of most months at this time/location. Log in and join the Spokane Drupal User Group (see sidebar on https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa ) to be notified of future meetings, events, and discussions (typically just a few email messages per month). - Where
- Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. We are currently meeting in the small conference room at the library. From the hallway, go into the library proper, past the checkout/information desk, take a right and you'll see the room on the right.
- To be reminded, sign up!
- To receive an email reminder closer to the date of the meeting, log in and click the "Sign up" button; log in and click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come. There's no obligation to come if you sign up (but we hope you will!). There's also no obligation to sign up in order to come (it's up to you if you want a reminder or not). However, the meeting could be canceled if the organizer isn't sure anyone is coming.
- What
- We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants around a table and a laptop on a projector. Come with questions about a project you're working on, something you've learned that you'd like to share with others, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
- Who
- Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!
Comments
Meeting notes
What we talked about today:
- Can use the Drupal admin user interface to do module updates, if it is configured. Otherwise, you will need to do more work manually. The UI works well and is easy.
- Do not, under any circumstances, uninstall the module before updating it! You will lose all your data and settings related to that module.
- Definitely install security updates for modules
- For non-security updates, some people like to do them to get the "latest and greatest" features; others like to leave their site stable if it's all working.
- Need to do this when there is a critical security update
- Process:
-- Download the zip or tar.gz archive from drupal.org. You can get to this from the Available Updates report, by clicking on "Release notes", which will have a link to download the archive.
-- Unpack the archive
-- Delete some files from the unpacked archive that you don't want to copy over: sites folder, .htaccess, web.config, robots.txt
-- Put site in maintenance mode
-- Copy everything else in to the site. To be very careful, you would first delete the corresponding folders from the site, but if you're updating between stable Drupal 7 Core versions, you can probably omit that step.
-- Visit (site URL)/update.php and run the database updates
-- Take site out of maintenance mode (possibly after checking everything is OK)
-- Clear the cache
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Date for next meeting
We talked today about when to have the next meeting...
- I am not available June 7 or 14 (I forgot about June 7 when we were discussing dates).
- I think some others were not available June 21.
So maybe we should postpone until July 12?
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Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
Re: June
I would be available June 21 and vote not to skip June. By golly, by George, I would show up June 28th if we chose that date! :D