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For Existing/Update Project

To upgrade the whoxa version you have to do manual installation.
First Navigate to our project.
```
  cd /var/www/whoxa
```

Backup important data like media and credential

  cp -r uploads/ ../
  cp .env ../
  cp config/config.json ../
  cp ./validatedToken.txt ../

Then clear the whoxa folder
```
  rm -rf /var/www/whoxa/{*,.*}
```
- this will remove the all files from whoxa
don't worrie if you get:
- rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '/var/www/whoxa/.'

You have to only upload backend zip instead of whole automation zip

So first extract whoxa_backend.zip
then you will get auto_deploy.zip
again extract that auto_deploy.zip
then you will get whoxa.zip so you have to upload that zip at /var/www/
Now upload that whoxa.zip at /var/www/whoxa/
then extract that zip file with
```
unzip whoxa.zip
```

Replace the files

Now we have to replace uploads folder and .env and config.json file.

  cp -r ../uploads/ ./
  cp ../config.json ./config/
  cp ../.env ./
  cp ../validatedToken.txt ./

Then run npm i which will install neccessary packages.
```
npm i
```

Restart the node.js server

pm2 restart 0