This tutorial will show you how to Update one or multiple OctoberCMS Websites on a server with an automated bash / shell script. October CMS is one of the best CMS's on the market today as it is based on PHP and Laravel. If you are a web designer and host your sites on a VPS server such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Vultr, or Linode this script will make your life much easier.

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The OCTOBER_CMS_UPDATE script is hosted on our Clustered Networks github page and is free to download, use and modify to your needs and requirements.

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october_cms_update.sh

OctoberCMS Auto Update (Bash) Script by ClusteredNetworks.com Performs an automatic update of your OctoberCMS Websites on a server. Simply modify, add or remove the proper paths and lines to the script with the path(s) to your website(s) on your server. make the script executable (chmod +x) and run a cronjob

Usage:

1. Pull up a terminal or SSH into the target server.

2. Logon as root

sudo -i

3. Download the installer script.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clusterednetworks/october_cms_update/master/october_cms_update.sh

4. Edit the configuration options at the beginning of the script to match your environment prior to executing.

#----------------------------------------
# OPTIONS
#----------------------------------------
PHP_PATH='/usr/bin/php'
PHP_UPDATE='artisan october:update'
#----------------------------------------

5. Make the script executable

chmod +x october_cms_update.sh

6. Run the script to ensure there are no errors.

./october_cms_update.sh

7. Setup a cronjob to run daily or weekly (this example cronjob will run every friday at 23:00 hours )

0 23 * * 5 /etc/october_cms_update.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

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