Drupal site administration

How to change the modules and themes

• do a subversion checkout of https://svn.library.cornell.edu/cul-drupal

• find your make file under cul-drupal/[drupal_6 or drupal_7]/make/[your site name]/[your site name].make

• add lines or modify the version of the module listed according to the drush make file format (use other sites for examples)
• check in the changed version

How to rebuild your site

• go to victoria02 and cd /libweb/sites/[your site name]/make

• svn up [your site name]

• sudo dr-make.sh @[your site name]/libweb/sites

How to move from production to test

• Log on to the production site and configure the 'Site under maintenance' block
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  • Under 'Page specific visibility settings' select 'Show on every page except the listed pages.'
• Make a backup of the production site to the Manual Backups Directory (using Backup and Migrate module)
  • Drupal 6: http://$productiondomain/admin/content/backup_migrate/export
  • Drupal 7: http://$productiondomain/admin/config/system/backup_migrate
• Put the test site into maintenance mode
  • Drupal 6: http://$testdomain/admin/settings/site-maintenance
  • Drupal 7: http://$testdomain/admin/config/development/maintenance

• go to victoria02 and cd /libweb/sites/[your site name]/make

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How to move from test to production