First, log into your concrete5 site as an administrator Log into your server's control panel and backup the database (or the entire site if you wish) Download a new zip of concrete5, extract it, rename the concrete folder inside it to something like concrete_new, zip that up and upload it next to the existing concrete directory

The available methods for updating between versions

Regardless of how you perform updates with concrete5 version 7 if you haven't setup everything correctly to cope with this you may get the message "Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded". This can leave your installation in an invalid state. This will help you recover.

This simple but effective method requires no database access. We have named this method after the creator - James Shannon (CEO at Ignite Local Marketing). In short, it will reset your admin password to "password".