Craft-3-Automated-Update-Script

This is a short bash script written by Andrej Szalma for updating Craft 3 projects autonomously.

This also takes care about GIT (fetch, merge, commit, push), therefore a local & remote repository needs to be set up already. There also needs to be a branch different than the master, as you usually don't want to change the files directly on the master branch.

Could be used in a cronjob to update Craft 3 websites on regular basis as the Craft & Plugin updates are coming out pretty often.

Instructions:

2. Place the craft3updater folder

• Place the craft3updater folder to your /usr/local/ folder

3. Make the script an executable

• For this script to run, it needs permisions to be executed, therefore we need to give those by this command:
  • chmod u+x /usr/local/craft3updater/bin/craft3updater

4. Add to the PATH

• For your script to be executable from anywhere whithout the need to write the whole path, you need to export it to your PATH:

• 1. Edit the .bash_profile file:

  • sudo nano /Users/*[username]*/.bash_profile

• 2. Add your script there:

  • export PATH="/usr/local/craft3updater/bin:$PATH"

5. Run it

• Finaly navigate to the folder, where all your websites live and run the script by typing craft3updater

6. Success

• If everything worked and the updates were successful, you should have an "Updated Craft CMS & Plugins" commit on your local & remote repository. Make sure to have composer update ran on your staging/develop server to ensure all the updates are installed there as well.

7. Debugging

• The updater now creates a updater.log.out log file in the folder it is run. It consists a timestamp for every webpage that it updates and the complete output from all commands that are run during the updating process.

Thank you for checking out this repo, feel free to make any tweaks to the script so it suits your own needs.