Comments on: Updating a Large Scale Drupal Multisite Installation?

By: Oliver Coleman

Oliver Coleman — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:45:21 +0000

There’s a new module for Drupal 5, Multisite Maintenance, that purports to do this easily. I haven’t tried it and there’s no stable release yet, the last dev snapshot was released on 25/01/2008. http://drupal.org/project/multisite_maintenance

By: justin

justin — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:38:52 +0000

i have a folder of bookmarks in my firefox called “drupal updates”. i open them all in tabs and close them one at a time as i update them.

i’d love a better (i.e. more automagical) way of doing it…

By: davidicus

davidicus — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:11:26 +0000

hack a roomba to do it. i know where you can get one cheap…

By: Boris Mann

Boris Mann — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:20:50 +0000

Yes, Drush has been helpful. Adrian made some enhancements already. The other bit is the “actions” included in core Drupal 6, which is why we can’t really build it on Drupal 5.

Darcy, my way, you can run sites in parallel and upgrade them one at a time, rather than having to upgrade all of them.

By: mlsamuelson

mlsamuelson — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:50:33 +0000

I’m involved with a 60+ multisite Drupal install and the best solution we’ve come up with is a script that generates a page listing update.php links for each site and then I start at the top and my co-worker starts at the bottom and we meet somewhere in the middle… sigh.

I’m excited to see that hostmaster2 will be Drupal-based. The previous version was in Python, if I remember correctly. I’m guessing it’s Drush that’s made this feasible. Sweet…

By: Boris Mann

Boris Mann — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:25:58 +0000

Short answer: no, not with a “plain jane” multisite install. You can configure Vhosts etc. to run two full multisite versions in parallel and switch over sites one at a time, running update.php as needed.

Long answer: yes, run our open source Hostmaster multisite management tools.

Except, we’re re-writing it to be Drupal 6-based, and that version is going to be easier. See http://groups.drupal.org/hostmaster2 for more details.