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It is very important to periodically upgrade your website to the current version of Joomla, both to keep things up to date - but also in order to ensure that your site is as secure as possible to minimise the threat of your website being hacked.
This is very easy to do locally on a Windows machine as Windows will automatically merge your existing site files with the new updated site files, - On Mac OS this is not the case and the update files will write over your existing site files instead of merging with whatever is already there.
There are various ways to achieve this, one of the simplist ways is...
- Open up your site's administrator backend and check the current version you are using.
- Go to Joomla.org and download the required update version.
- Once this is downloaded, rename the file to something shorter and copy / paste it into your local htdocs folder.
- Then open Terminal and type the following...
cp -R /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/joomlaupgrade /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/existingwebsite
(where 'joomlaupgrade' is the folder containing the Joomla upgrade and 'existingwebsite' is the existing website which you are upgrading.)
So you should have something like this:
rob-jolliffes-imac:~ robjolliffe$ cp -R /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/joomlaupgrade /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/robjolliffe.co.uk
TIP: One important thing to remember when working with a Joomla website is that in order to make updates run as smoothly as possible, do not edit your 'CORE CODE'. Changing any core code (Non template files) is likely to make your website either not work, or not look the same once the update is complete.
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