What will I learn to do?
Maintaining a SPIP site is not a complex process providing it is correctly planned. In this lesson you will learn:
What SPIP site maintenance is all about
Why it is important to plan this maintenance
How to appropriately plan site maintenance
What is SPIP site maintenance all about?
The two main operations you must handle as a webmaster regarding site maintenance are:
the backup of the information on your site
the upgrade of the SPIP version that supports your site
The backup process consist in taking backups of the core, essential components of your site:
the database
the templates you have customized
the folders ’IMG/’
the folder ’plugins/’, if tyou use plugins
There is no need to save the SPIP programs themselves as you are using a version which is available from the download site.
The upgrade of the SPIP version that supports you site can be done for two reasons:
Functional upgrade: you may upgrade SPIP to benefit from new functionalities, bug fixing, usability improvements, etc.
Security upgrade: you may have to upgrade your site to benefit from fixing of the security flaws detected on the version you are currently using.
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Quiz yourself.
Why is it important to plan site maintenance?
Planning your site maintenance will insure you to implement the correct operations on a regular basis.
Planning is also important because there are certain sequences of actions that should always take place, for example:
Before performing any operation a database backup should always be performed.
A backup of the folders ’IMG/’, ’squelettes/’ and ’plugins/’ should also be done before any maintenance actions.
