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Today, I got an update alert from drupal to update the web from 6.13 to 6.14.

I keep forgetting the procedures (sign of getting old), so I decide to put all these things on blog, so it will remind me how to do this things and hopefully, it would help someone. I did screw up my web site when I first did the core update, so it's worth to pay attention to this.

you can find the official guide here
http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction

I skip a few steps for being lazy and it's faster to do it my way :P.

1) You download the latest drupal to c:  (version 6.14 from the shortcut there or from drupal web)

2) Backup your database using the back_migrate module (the most important step of all, just in case anything screw up).
http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

3) Put your site to offline mode. You don't want people adding data to your web while the upgrade takes place

4) Uplaod the files inside the latest drupal core to web server to overwrite those old drupal core files. Yes, I skipped the turn off modules / theme steps.

5) Run the update.php   (www.yoursite.com/update.php) - Done