build2be/com/e - installation

My getting started with Drupal

clemens — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:23:03 +0000

When I want to install a new site on my laptop I do the following

Edit /etc/hosts to add a new domain.
```
sudo echo test 127.0.0.12 > /etc/hosts
```
Next I add a new website
```
vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/test
```
To make the newly create site work there needs to be a directory to land on.
```
mkdir -p /home/me/sites/test
```

We can now enable the newly created site

sudo a2ensite test
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Now test whether both domain and website are working
```
ping test
wget test
```

Now suppose the directory /home/me/sites/test is actually a symlink to drupal? Then it become easier to install 10 sites with another few tricks.

free form:

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Some references

clemens — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:18:12 +0000

Writing an article without pointer is pointless. So here is a start.

Version dependencies are described here http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

For a functional dependency specification (Nix and NixOS) see

the paper of Eelco Dolstra http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf
the developers manual http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nix-0.11/manual/#chap-package-management
the project homepage http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/index.html

mysql cycle

clemens — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:18:36 +0000

I still forget how to do the database and user creation and drop goes. So why not make a note.

Creating

create database test;
create user 'test' identified by 'pwtest';
grant all on test.* to 'test'@'localhost' identified by 'pwtest';

Cleaning up

drop user test;
drop database;

Yeah ... call me stupid ;-)

downloading projects in core

clemens — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:54:40 +0000

Apart from security risk i think it would be great to have drupal install modules needed for a profile. For a commandline solution provided by drush the advantages are great.

Combining 'project provides' and clean dependency checks multi site users would get rid of the burden to get modules in place before installing.

uninstalling dependentless

clemens — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:48:11 +0000

When uninstalling modules the code uses a simple foreach to call drupal_uninstall_module.

My guess is that this should be in TSL order. And it will be easy to implement when we have the dependency graph of the modules to uninstall.

Question remains whether dependent modules should be uninstalled together. That is without the user selecting what modules to uninstall.

Module management in Drupal

clemens — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:19:10 +0000

The title of this page should be project management because Drupal uses projects for delivering modules. A companion video shows the Drupal 5.x situation. Using drush, my drush_mm patch and update status to manage and install modules command line. This video shows better dependency checking than currently available in D7. As I hope is clear I want to contribute to implement this into D7.

Installing ubercart through drush pm and mm

clemens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:14:37 +0000

It's quite neat using drush to install ubercart. Here is what I did.

Preparation

Install drupal 5.x
Install your site/database
download and install drush
download and install update_status
if you want to follow along install this patch for the module manager
Enable the above modules. For a list see below.

Installing

My drush usage

clemens — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:32:57 +0000

Using drush with a strict server design makes my drupal maintence much more relaxed. I have this tiny script as a runner for drush.

$ cat drush

Modules in err

clemens — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:06:33 +0000

Installing modules with drush is easy.

# drush pm install ubercart

My drush patch for a module manager makes it more easier to SEE what's installed. listing# drush mm list imagary# drush mm dot | dot -T png -o ~/graph.png shows a module in error. (I deleted workflow_ng) scroll to the right for red

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graphviz

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Installing ubercart.

clemens — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:29:56 +0000

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This story is about the cool tools and modules drupal offer. I will use drush as a command tool. This only works if you have shell access. Steps taken

Install drupal.
Install drush module
Install update_status module

Now the fun part starts.

configure drush

run drush ...

drush pm install token workflow_ng tapir ubrowser cck imagefield imagecache google_analytics ubercart