Comments on: Drupal Shared Hosting Site Installer

By: Jeff Eaton

Jeff Eaton — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

The core installer is set up to fire hook_install() when the basic module enabling work is finished, so an install profile can do whatever settings-twiddling it needs to. We're looking, though, at using distro-specific 'wizard' modules to do the bulk of the setup work for profiles that need a lot of user-driven customization.

I'm in the process of completing a 'Welcome to Drupal' module for use in new-user installations that hand-holds them through the process of making the admin account, naming the site, adding a few aggregator items, and so on.

It's a slightly different model than some installers but I think there's a lot of flexibility to it. I'm really curious to see how it could work together with your automated command-line installer....

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

maye you should consider to use

"sed -i"

to modify the files without writing them (readable) to tmp.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Jeff – that sounds really great! I think the two installers are complimentary, in that the core one will handle Drupal-specific stuff, and my script will to server-specific stuff (symlinks, create database, etc…)

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’ll give that a try. I was basically just duct-taping bits of googled code together…