Posted by jbc on January 28, 2008 at 10:47am
I am running Drupal 5.6 with multiple sites installed using the standard procedure.
I want to utilise DrupalEd distro as a sub-site of my main personal site. The DrupalEd site will be a seperate area for learning / education / tutorial groups etc.
Can you advise on the wisdom / possibility of / challenges involved in setting up an installation this way?
My directory would be something like
sites/all/default
sites/mypersonalsite/ [modules / themes]
sites/drupaled/modules
sites/drupaled/themes
sites/drupaled/lib
I am going to set it up in a sandbox, but I would appreciate hearing from those with a better understanding whether there may be issues in trying to do this which I am not going to be aware of until it's too late...
thnx.
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This is exactly how DrupalEd
This is exactly how DrupalEd is designed to work -- really, it's a Drupal site, with contrib modules, and some pre-configured options. All of the code in DrupalEd can be downloaded from drupal.org
Cheers,
Bill
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thoughts?
That's what I thought.
However, I couldn't get much further than this in my 'sandbox':
I copied over all the sub-folders that were in the sites/all/.. folder of my (successfully up & running) DrupalEd instal, including the settings.php...
into a working copy of drupal 5-6, into a sites/test.drupaled folder.
It picked up the main text but the whole theming was missing. I could click on some links such as log in but others led no-where.
Clearly there's more to it. Am I missing out something important?
I know everthing comes from Drupal.org. But on the other hand there's some quite clever stuff that you've done which shows up only when one does the database import. It's quite hard to unscramble and I don't really want to try to unpick it too much: I'd simply like to get it working as a sub-domain site of my main drupal installation (i.e. which wouldn't be running a DrupalEd instal / db etc.)
Thnx.
shalom from wales!
John
Try getting a multisite
Try getting a multisite install working with two vanilla Drupal installs -- this will verify that there aren't any issues with the actual multisite setup.
Then, add in the DrupalEd codebase.
Cheers,
Bill
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multisite working fine
that's in place.
Am I correct in my assumption that the only folders which need adding in are those within the sites/all folder of the DrupalEd instal? Plus, say the Files (sub)folder(s).
shalom from wales!
John
IIRC, that's it. Possibly,
IIRC, that's it. Possibly, the getid3 libraries for the audio module are also in sites, but I don't remember off the top of my head.
Cheers,
Bill
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Adding themes/engines
My multisite installation complained that there was no themes/engines subfolder, so I added the "engines" subfolder from the main themes folder to my sub-site themes subfolder.
It would be nice to add the above information to the "drupaled_INSTALL.txt" file for all those who don't want to install DrupalED from scratch but add it to an existing Drupal installation by way of a multisite installation.
Regards
Frank
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Please, write this up
From your post, I'm not entirely clear what you needed to do -- the standard Drupal install does not require an engines subfolder, and we have not needed anything like that in any of our multisite work.
But all help with documentation/config/any aspect of maintaining the profile is always appreciated.
Cheers,
Bill
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