Updating DirectAdmin Manually

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Updating DirectAdmin Manually

Last Modified: Nov 5, 2012, 2:35 am

If you need to update your copy of DirectAdmin manually, you can do so by running the following commands:

cd /usr/local/directadmin
wget --no-check-certificate -O update.tar.gz 'https://www.directadmin.com/cgi-bin/daupdate?redirect=ok&uid=123&lid=1234'
tar xvzf update.tar.gz
./directadmin p
cd scripts
./update.sh
/etc/init.d/directadmin restart

Where 123 and 1234 are your Client ID and License ID, respectively. Note that if you are running FreeBSD, you might need to add a \ before the ? character in the wget line, and use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/directadmin restart. If there are errrors extracting the update.tar.gz file, then run:

head -n 1 update.tar.gz

to search for an error. If there is an readble error inside the file, then you'll need to contact sales@directadmin.com to get your license activated or updated.

Using the above redirect=ok option in the download string will tell the daupdate that the downloader being used supports Location header redirects. The daupdate script will offload downloads when possible to other servers.

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