The quick way to update a SeedDMS installation
SeedDMS comes with rather detailed instructions on how to install and update the
software. It’s all described in the file doc/README.Install.md which is part
of the quickstart archive. This article focuses on a very special but quite
regular case, when SeedDMS is updated without changing the major and minor
version number. Hence, all updates within the SeedDMS 5.1.x or 6.0.x series,
e.g. from 6.0.22 to 6.0.28.
SeedDMS’ folder structure on disk is
designed to be secure and easily updateable. The parts to be replaced during
an update are located in two directories in the base directory named pear and
seeddms-5.1.x or seeddms-6.0.x. All other directories remain unchanged.
This is achieved by soft links within the directory www and it enforced to
run SeedDMS on a platform supporting soft links. If this in not the case, this
article may still be useful to understand the update process but you will have
to dereference the links yourself.