I know it's been almost 2 weeks since our last meetup, so it seems like we should be meeting this week. But, our scheduled meetups are the 1st Tuesday of the month and the 3rd Thursday. Since this month had 5 Tuesdays (awesome!) our next official meetup will be on Tuesday April 6, and I'll get an announcement up shortly.
Of course we could do something informal between now and next Tuesday. Maybe a Drupal install-fest?
I've got the "install" thing worked out (XAMPP) but I'm struggling a bit with an upgrade that the Drupal-masters seem to think is quite important (it nags me every time I start up.). I've downloaded the update, but can't seem to start the upgrade process.
I've only Googled this lightly, so I'm probably missing the obvious. I do NOT want to drain a lot of time from you kind wizards who are helping us newbies - but I wondered - is there a quick set of 1/2/3 to do an update on a local install?
You should be able to complete that update without too much trouble. I've always been able to do it by following these steps (Andy, etc, please feel free to correct me, if I'm explaining this wrong). Keep in mind, this is on a localhost site where there's no danger of someone trying to access your site while you're updating. If you're working on a live site, you'll want to put your site into Maintenance Mode.
That appears to have done the trick. Thanks for the great description. I had somehow missed the install instructions (I think I've been working in Windows-land too long...)
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Not this week…
I know it's been almost 2 weeks since our last meetup, so it seems like we should be meeting this week. But, our scheduled meetups are the 1st Tuesday of the month and the 3rd Thursday. Since this month had 5 Tuesdays (awesome!) our next official meetup will be on Tuesday April 6, and I'll get an announcement up shortly.
Of course we could do something informal between now and next Tuesday. Maybe a Drupal install-fest?
Oh, ok.
1st Tuesday and 3rd Thursday...ok. I wasn't sure what days we had settled on for the meetings.
I'm on board for helping with an install-fest, if anyone needs/wants it.
Scott Rouse
http://about.me/scott.rouse
Beginner question - update install on local (XAMPP install)
I've got the "install" thing worked out (XAMPP) but I'm struggling a bit with an upgrade that the Drupal-masters seem to think is quite important (it nags me every time I start up.). I've downloaded the update, but can't seem to start the upgrade process.
I've only Googled this lightly, so I'm probably missing the obvious. I do NOT want to drain a lot of time from you kind wizards who are helping us newbies - but I wondered - is there a quick set of 1/2/3 to do an update on a local install?
Thanks!
Art
www.aheld.com
www.HikersCameraBelt.com
Update
Art,
You should be able to complete that update without too much trouble. I've always been able to do it by following these steps (Andy, etc, please feel free to correct me, if I'm explaining this wrong). Keep in mind, this is on a localhost site where there's no danger of someone trying to access your site while you're updating. If you're working on a live site, you'll want to put your site into Maintenance Mode.
That should do it. Let me know if that doesn't make sense. I've included links to certain areas of the Drupal Upgrade guide to try to help out.
-Scott
Scott Rouse
http://about.me/scott.rouse
successful update
That appears to have done the trick. Thanks for the great description. I had somehow missed the install instructions (I think I've been working in Windows-land too long...)
www.aheld.com
www.HikersCameraBelt.com
Yay
Glad it worked out for ya!
Scott Rouse
http://about.me/scott.rouse