Updating DirectAdmin Manually

Enter your information here:
Client ID (uid):  
License ID (lid):

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
service 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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If you'd like automated DA updates, there a few ways of going about it. (we don't trigger updates from our end to your server anymore)
- CustomBuild can be set to cron auto update the services, and if you also use da_autoupdate=yes, CB will do it for you. However, automated CB updates isn't always recommended.
- A simple cronjob that runs this command is likely safer, if you only want DA to be auto-updated:

echo "action=update&value=program" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

Each night that the update is rejected, you'll get a note in your /var/log/directadmin/system.log.

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Note Pre-release and regular updates to not issue full config rewrites.  If you need a template change, you must issue a full rewrite to get it:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build rewrite_confs