How to update core Drupal and not impact ELMS

Yes, If you download the distribution and go into the profiles folder you should be able to copy the elms folder there into any existing drupal stack. Place this in your /profiles/ directory of your current drupal install and then go about installing drupal in a new site, you'll get the option to install elms.

This will go to drupal 7 eventually, there's too many projects that need to be stable (long enough stable) for me to move there at this time. The current plan is to roll this out in Drupal 6 (which will still be around awhile regardless of what people want to admit) and then move to D7 once there is a viable upgrade path for all (or at least most) non-elms modules. Most major distributions are still being built on D6 because of the stability required of clients to run applications of this scale.

I have copied the elms profile under my existing site's profile directory.Whats next...
I tried going through install.php but didnt found an option of installing elms onto existing site.So how to integrate the ELMS profile in existing site?

I wouldn't recommend integrating it into an existing site. If you must, download the fully project, then go to profiles and copy the entire elms directory. Then move this directory into the profiles directory on your existing drupal setup. It is generally recommended to keep distributions separate from "normal" drupal setups but this is how you can do it if needed.

Thanks for the reply.

yea i have copied the entire elms directory under profiles directory of my existing drupal setup.Whats the next step...as i dont see any configuration step from where i can install elms.I tried with install.php but that too didnt showed me any configuration Steps.

Tks,
Vilash

can't install on an existing site. The installer needs to run on a new install, that's just how you can get the system to work as part of a multisite setup. If you want to build it into a current site you'll need to add everything under modules to sites/all/modules and then manually get stuff turned on from there (highly not-recommended)

Thanks for your reply.

I was trying to install ELMS as a multisite setup to the existing drupal.So can you please suggest me a way by which i can install ELMS as multisite using ELMS profile.I know how to create a multisite with set of modules and themes but finding it hard how to create it with profile.

Tks,
Vilash

copying the elms profile into the profiles you should be able to install it at a new site address as a normal multisite. Again, this is unsupported and not recommended.

Hello,
I'm a little confused. I think I have a list of things to save off before an update.
So:
Sites folder
.htaccess
Profiles folder
Anything else?
I'm trying to update from Drupal 7.19 to 7.21 because I keep getting security update emails.
I'm following the steps above.

please use a new issue for this. ELMS is not Drupal 7 based and so it's Drupal 6 instance most remain intact. cores of drupal must be installed in different directories.