Wordpress Auto-Update Script For A Linux Server
Monday, March 16th, 2009I wrote a little update script for my server to auto update my wordpress installation and figured it might help some other people as well. To use it you simply supply as arguments to the script three things:
1. the directory where your wordpress install lives
2. the name of the backups you’d like to create for that directory
3. the version of the wordpress install you’d like to upgrade to
For example, on my server I use this command to update my wp version:
sudo ./updateWordpress.sh /path/to/wordpress/installation efnx 2.7.1
[enter password]
[watch output]
done!
Here is the code to my script:
#!/bin/bash
DIR2UPDATE=$1
NAME=$2
VERSION=$3
echo "Beginning update of $DIR2UPDATE to version $VERSION..."
if [ -d wordpress_svn ]
then
day=`date | cut -d" " -f3`
tme=`date | cut -d" " -f4`
hour=`echo ${tme} | cut -d":" -f1`
fileday=`ls -lh | grep wordpress_svn | cut -c 37-39`
filehour=`ls -lh | grep wordpress_svn | cut -c 40-41`
if [ ${fileday} != ${day} ]; then
echo "SVN directory not up to date, [ file's date ${fileday} != today ${day} ] deleting and updating"
rm -rf wordpress_svn/*
cd wordpress_svn
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/${VERSION} .
else
if [ "$filehour" != "$hour" ]; then
echo "SVN directory not up to date, [ file's hour ${filehour} != now ${hour} ] deleting and updating"
rm -rf wordpress_svn/*
cd wordpress_svn
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/${VERSION} .
else
echo "SVN directory is up to date, skipping update"
cd wordpress_svn
fi
fi
else
echo "Creating new svn directory and checking out version $VERSION...";
mkdir wordpress_svn;
cd wordpress_svn;
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/${VERSION} .;
fi
cd ..
if [ -d wordpress_int ]
then
echo "Removing old intermediate container...";
rm -rf wordpress_int;
fi
echo "Creating new intermediate container..."
mkdir wordpress_int
echo "Moving version $VERSION files into intermediate container..."
cp -rpf wordpress_svn/* wordpress_int
echo "Moving config and custom files from $NAME into intermediate container..."
cp -p ${DIR2UPDATE}/wp-config.php wordpress_int
cp -rpf ${DIR2UPDATE}/wp-content/* wordpress_int/wp-content/
cp -p ${DIR2UPDATE}/.htaccess wordpress_int
echo 'Updating svn for wp-content'
svn update wordpress_int
echo "Backing up $DIR2UPDATE..."
mkdir ${NAME}_backup
#mv -f ${DIR2UPDATE}/* ${NAME}_backup # if you'd like to mv instead of cp
cp -rpf ${DIR2UPDATE}/* ${NAME}_backup
tar -czvf ${NAME}_backup.tar.gz ${NAME}_backup
rm -rf ${NAME}_backup
echo 'Removing svn data from intermediate container...'
rm -rf `find wordpress_int/ -type d -name .svn`
echo "Moving intermediate container contents to $DIR2UPDATE..."
cp -rpf wordpress_int/* ${DIR2UPDATE}
DIR2UPDATE=$1
NAME=$2
VERSION=$3
echo "Beginning update of $DIR2UPDATE to version $VERSION..."
if [ -d wordpress_svn ]
then
day=`date | cut -d" " -f3`
tme=`date | cut -d" " -f4`
hour=`echo ${tme} | cut -d":" -f1`
fileday=`ls -lh | grep wordpress_svn | cut -c 37-39`
filehour=`ls -lh | grep wordpress_svn | cut -c 40-41`
if [ ${fileday} != ${day} ]; then
echo "SVN directory not up to date, [ file's date ${fileday} != today ${day} ] deleting and updating"
rm -rf wordpress_svn/*
cd wordpress_svn
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/${VERSION} .
else
if [ "$filehour" != "$hour" ]; then
echo "SVN directory not up to date, [ file's hour ${filehour} != now ${hour} ] deleting and updating"
rm -rf wordpress_svn/*
cd wordpress_svn
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/${VERSION} .
else
echo "SVN directory is up to date, skipping update"
cd wordpress_svn
fi
fi
else
echo "Creating new svn directory and checking out version $VERSION...";
mkdir wordpress_svn;
cd wordpress_svn;
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/${VERSION} .;
fi
cd ..
if [ -d wordpress_int ]
then
echo "Removing old intermediate container...";
rm -rf wordpress_int;
fi
echo "Creating new intermediate container..."
mkdir wordpress_int
echo "Moving version $VERSION files into intermediate container..."
cp -rpf wordpress_svn/* wordpress_int
echo "Moving config and custom files from $NAME into intermediate container..."
cp -p ${DIR2UPDATE}/wp-config.php wordpress_int
cp -rpf ${DIR2UPDATE}/wp-content/* wordpress_int/wp-content/
cp -p ${DIR2UPDATE}/.htaccess wordpress_int
echo 'Updating svn for wp-content'
svn update wordpress_int
echo "Backing up $DIR2UPDATE..."
mkdir ${NAME}_backup
#mv -f ${DIR2UPDATE}/* ${NAME}_backup # if you'd like to mv instead of cp
cp -rpf ${DIR2UPDATE}/* ${NAME}_backup
tar -czvf ${NAME}_backup.tar.gz ${NAME}_backup
rm -rf ${NAME}_backup
echo 'Removing svn data from intermediate container...'
rm -rf `find wordpress_int/ -type d -name .svn`
echo "Moving intermediate container contents to $DIR2UPDATE..."
cp -rpf wordpress_int/* ${DIR2UPDATE}
Or you can just download the script here [rightclick + 'save as']->
updateWordpress.sh
