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Chapter 14 ■ Administering Your Drupal Site Figure 14-9. Status report You are most likely to see issues regarding the status of Drupal core, contributed modules, and themes. If there is an updated version of Drupal or if a contributed module or theme has been updated on Drupal. org, these items will appear as yellow. Checking for Updates and Security Patches If the status report shows that module or theme updates are available, you’ll want to check to see which types of updates are available. There are three general categories of updates that you will want to pay attention to both as you develop your new site and once the site is in production: • Security patches • Module updates • Drupal core updates In most cases you will want to address security updates as soon as possible, whereas you may choose to address module updates and Drupal core updates on a monthly, quarterly, or even less frequent basis. Module and Drupal core updates typically address bugs that were found in a module or Drupal core and/or offer new features that were added to the module or Drupal core. As the site administrator, you will need to determine, by looking at the release notes for each update, whether the update is something you should do immediately (for example, fixing a bug that you have struggled with on your site) or can delay. To check to see if there are any security patches or updates, click the “Out of date” link on the Status report next to the modules and themes item. The “Out of date” report lists all modules and themes that you have installed on your site that have available updates on Drupal.org. It’s a good idea to visit each module’s page on Drupal.org to see if there are any critical bugs reported for the new version of the module, before you decide to download and install it. I have experienced cases where a new version of a contributed module that I have installed on one of my sites introduced new bugs that I didn’t have on the site prior to the upgrade. It’s a good idea to check before upgrading. To install the updates for a theme or module, simply click the “Download the updates.” Drupal will automatically download, install, and enable the updates. See Figure 14-10. 165
Chapter 14 ■ Administering Your Drupal Site Figure 14-10. Available module and theme updates In a case where Drupal core is updated, the process is slightly more complex. To update Drupal core: 1. Make sure you back up your database! 2. Make sure you back up your entire Drupal directory! 3. Using Drush, run the following command: drush up drupal. 4. Test your site. An alternative approach for updating Drupal core is to first back up the modules, profiles, sites, and themes directories in the root directory of your site, and the .htaccess and web.config files. Once you have secured copies of those directories, download Drupal core and extract the archive file in the root directory of your site. The extraction process will place Drupal in a subdirectory with a name of the version that you downloaded (e.g., drupal-8.0.0-beta7). You’ll need to move all of the files from this subdirectory to the root directory of your site. To do so on Linux/OS X, use the following commands: mv * ../ mv .* ../ On other operating systems, use the tools available to you to move files and directories. Once you have moved Drupal into place, proceed with moving the directories and files that you backed up into their respective locations in the root directory of your site. Approving Requests for User Accounts Drupal lets you, the site administrator, determine how user accounts are created on your website. You can • Allow site visitors to create their own accounts without approval by a site administrator. • Allow site visitors to register an account, but require that a site administrator approve it before allowing the visitor to use the account. • Restrict account creation to only the site administrator. The approach you use is completely dependent on whether you allow visitors to have their own accounts. There is no reason to provide this feature if you don’t provide interactive features on your site. If you provide limited capabilities for authenticated users (for example, if you don’t enable permissions for any administrative features to the generic “authenticated users” category) and you don’t want to be bothered 166
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