Updating WordPress On CentOS

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Updating WordPress is a manual process for me since I host it locally. Here are the commands I run:

To Resolve:

  1. Get the latest WordPress zip (or tar.gz) file: Download to my ~/Downloads via Firefox. Sure I could curl/wget, but meh.

  2. Unpack the zip file that you downloaded.

  3. Deactivate plugins.

  4. First, we want to remove what we need full replacements for (I use a ~/trash folder instead of rm -rf) :

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sudo systemctl stop httpd
cd /var/www/html
sudo mv wp-includes ~/trash
sudo mv wp-admin ~/trash
  1. Now copy files from Downloads to site:
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cd ~/Downloads
sudo tar -xzf wordpress(whatever... tab complete)
cd wordpress
sudo cp -R wp-includes /var/www/html/wp-includes
sudo cp -R wp-admin /var/www/html/wp-admin
#sudo cp -R wp-content /var/www/html/wp-content/wp-content
rsync -a -v --ignore-existing ~/Downloads/wordpress/wp-content /var/www/html/wp-content
sudo cp *.* /var/www/html/*.*

cd ..
sudo mv wordpress ~/trash
  1. Lastly, we just set permissions to the site:
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sudo chown apache:apache /var/www/html -R
sudo chown root:root /var/www/html/wp-config.php

cd /var/www/html
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
sudo chmod 644 wp-config.php

sudo systemctl start httpd

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