Posted by wrfeldmann on July 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
I have a situation where a few of our drupal installations are not allowed to access the internet. They can be accessed from the internet. Because of this, the Reports page always shows that Drupal core update status, HTTP request status, Module and theme update status Fail to get available update data or just plain fail.
These servers can talk to other servers within our network. Is there a way to create a server that is a mirror of the stable code and have that update itself on a periodic basis and then configure our drupal installations to hit that server instead of going to drupal.org?
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You could potentially mirror
You could potentially mirror the pieces of drupal.org that your sites need to talk to. It seems painful (on both sides) to try to mirror everything on drupal.org.
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Proxy not mirror
There's probably no need to mirror, proxying the requests would do the trick. Either way you'll need this patch to make it work:
http://drupal.org/node/7881#comment-6222908