Updating¶

Preparation¶

Before updating the Web Teaching Environment, perform the following three steps to put the Web Teaching Environment into a state that is ready for the update:

The first step is to download the latest Web Teaching Environment release from https://bitbucket.org/mhall/web-teaching-environment.
Next stop the Web Teaching Environment application. How to do this depends on how you have deployed it (see Deployment).
Finally, make a backup of the database. This will allow you to roll-back the application in case of there being any issues that arise during or after the update.

Update¶

To perform the actual update of the Web Teaching Environment, first activate the virtual environment you previously installed the Web Teaching Environment into. To install the new version you downloaded, run the following command:

pip install WebTeachingEnvironment-x.y.z.tar.gz

This will install the downloaded version and also automatically install and update any libraries the Web Teaching Environment depends on.

Restart¶

You can then re-start the Web Teaching Environment and test that the update has installed successfully.