Follow this web page to get a key and csr file.https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/certificates-and-security.html

I did this for both pie-lter.ecosytems.mbl.edu and arc-lter.ecosystems.mbl.edu sites 

Note you need to put in the full site name when genrating the .csr file.

I then submitted the csr file (2048 bit long modulus) to mbl helpdesk to get a certificate.

Copied the certificates to /etc/ssl/certs and key file to /etc/ssl/private

rysnc from production to local

To copy the contents of the remote directory into a directory in your local, See note below about trailing '/':

sudo rsync -chavzP --stats --delete --exclude sites/default/settings.php user@remote.host:/path/to/copy/  /path/to/local/storage   (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9090817/copying-files-using-rsync-fro...)

Changes:

Before migrate

php tidy needs to installed. Use:

    sudo apt-get install php5-tidy otherwise one gets an error about missing  ';'  which is because and '&' was passed and not a '&amp'

Need to give the drupal 6 user permission on the drupal 7 database. 

Need to increase file upload time: Was getting "Fatal error: "Maximum execution time of 240 seconds exceeded"

I tested the update first on a dev site and all seems good.

First I updated any modules that needed security updates. Then cleared cache and did a updb. 

Ran drush up drupal

Then the patches - field_hook_presave_and_load_for_default_values_1.patch and formatter_weight-1982776-29.patch.  I didn't run the one for setting.php since that was already patched from when diems was installed.