Questions about deployment: how to stage content, managing and syncing sites across multiple servers, etc.
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Can we use the features module to organize the mess of an existing site?
My client is having an existing D7 site with 3 environments: dev => staging => production. Migration of definitions from one environment to the next is currently done manually.
Can we use the ...
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How to deploy a site with open source?
I created a Drupal 7 site on my localhost. I installed some modules, created some content types and fields, changed some preferences, etc. and also entered some real test data. (I want this data to be ...
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How to theming and deploy custom blocks which created in admin UI?
I've created some custom blocks in my development environment and export them with Features + FE Block with given machine names. And then deploy and enable them in my staging environment.
Just like ...
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git post-receive hook to trigger drush rsync without prompt or with predefined answer
I have set up post-receive hook on my staging server, so whenever I push from dev server a master branch, it updates staging webroot and triggers drush rsync to update live site.
#!/bin/bash
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Git workflow from dev to live when central repo is in local network [closed]
I use @dev - @stage - @live workflow, managed with drush rsync and drush aliases to update code, syncing db down from @live to @dev / @stage to have recent state.
Recently, I am trying to implement ...
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Deployment Module on Drupal 7 issue
I've installed and set up the deploy module; I've followed instruction on Installation docs of deploy module for D7 and double checked it.
When I try to deploy node content, and run the cron, ...
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How to redirect all images in the files folder to a default file?
Because we work with DTAP environments, our developers work on their own laptops. To get a good view of the live environment, we copy the PROD database and the files to our own laptop. However, this ...
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How do I get debug_backtrace() to fire on the endpoint site of a Deployment process?
I'm trying to work through this UUID features bug with the deploy module. On the receiving site, I see errors in that log like
PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect integer ...
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Deployment for staging and production
I need to make the deployment easy between my staging and production servers.
How can I do this? I need to deploy all the changes, so if I pull from Github and run the script, the changes are ...
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What are the advantages, for managing a single multisite instance of Drupal, to using drush make instead of git fetch & merge?
I don't intend to publicly distribute an installation profile for my multisite instance. Are there still advantages to using platform/site makefiles to move code updates through dev/test/production ...
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How can I install composer packages with drush make?
How does one include composer package in a drush make file?
The more general answer, the better. There's already a composer drush module allowing drush dl to handle composer packages, but that ...
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Best method to enable/disable modules depending on the environment
What would be the best solution to enable/disable modules depending on the site environment (dev, stage or production)?
Created a database dump containing the system table for each installation. ...
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How do you handle long runtime updates needed in hook_install()?
I have a new module that includes a series of hook_update_N()s. I had written these without knowing that during module install the modules schema value is set to the highest value of hook_update_N() ...
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Is it possible to create an installation pack in Drush make?
I already have a Drupal 7 running. Is it possible to create an installation package using Make from my current setup. My goal is I have a Drupal 6 version which I need to convert to D7. For the sake ...
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Latest Best Practise: Reusing blocks
What's the best way of reusing blocks between sites in Drupal 7.
I want to re-use not only the block, but also the block's position in my theme.
Apparently, Features extra is designed for this. ...
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Site off-line with correct data in settings.php
I'm trying to set up a development folder for a Drupal6 already existing website.
Under htdocs/sites/<website>/settings.php I have the following line in order to connect to the drupal6 DB:
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Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 110
We try to deploy drupal application in our production server.we face this strange error
"Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 110" after ...
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Authentication error when deploying site's content
I have two sites site01 and site02 each having some content (book pages) in them. I want to copy the content of site01 to site02 without overwriting its existing content.
I am using Deploy module to ...
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Error sending Drush commands to remote host
I have Drush 5.2 installed on my local dev system and my remote host, which has staging and production sites. I have aliases for all three sites, and am able to use rsync and sql-sync on both systems ...
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What tools do I need to automate my Drupal workflow? [closed]
What tools do I need to automate the following tasks:
Project setup
Generate project wide password
Setup prod domain and dev and stage subdomain on server
Create user with access to /bin/bash/
Add ...
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Manage custom modules across multiple installations
We have some custom modules which are used for multiple sites. Those can't be released as contributed modules, for example because they are client specific, make assumptions that don't work for ...
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Merging new contents with new functionalities
Assuming a situation when you develop a new functionality on a local copy of an already published site for quite a while, during which period the client adds new content over and over again.
How do ...
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Install.php available after xcopy deployment
I created a Drupal 7 site with Sqlite on my dev machine. When I go to localhost/install.php it says: Drupal is already installed.
After deploying the whole bunch to shared hosting (windows) the ...
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Is there is a module like, “dbcm”?
Is there is a module like dbcm in Drupal 7?
I want to know changes happen in database, so I can update my production sites with all configuration changes: new block, new views, new (CCK) fields.
I ...
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Are Drush and Phing redundant?
I've installed JenkinsCI on our dev server to start automating our dev build and test process. I'm using Jenkins with the Git Plugin and some Drush commands via a shell script.
When researching how ...
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drupal moving from local host to live server - error
Error
The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.
Error message
PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1231 Variable 'sql_mode' can't be set to the ...
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500 error: Output filter: Response body too large
I recently copied a drupal 7 site from my development server to my production server. Everything on the site seems to be working as expected, except for when I log in as the admin user and try to ...
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For what website size does the deploy module make sense?
I have a website that I am in the process of developing that I hope to grow to 1,000 active users or so by the end of the year.
I'm using the Features module to manage deployment, and a local-> dev-> ...
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Deploying to multiple hosts using Webistrano
We're using Webistrano to deploy our Drupal sites to testing and production.
The recipe we're using is as follows:
namespace :drupal do
desc "symlink_files"
task :symlink_files do
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Disable editing of post during update
I would like to disable user access to the administration during updates, such as bugfixes and additions of new content-types etc. I'm not completly sure on how to achive this. What would be the best ...
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How do I add taxonomy terms and vocabularies to an exportable deployment plan?
I'm in the process of developing an installation profile for a new site. We're using Features to export much of our functionality, and are very interested in using the Deploy module integration with ...
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How to correctly remove a module in a staged environment?
Some modules have deïnstallation routines. Which typically remove databasetables for that module, variables from the variable table and locales introduced by that module. These routines live in the ...
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Using wget to get the latest module version
I was contemplating building a quick bash script to wget all of the modules I use on Drupal sites but every time the module version changes, the link changes.
Take for example the views module. At ...
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Server Deployment of Economist.com
As documented here, it seems the Economist is using Drupal for most of it's site. I am just curious if anyone has information on the number of servers and their config. Any idea?
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Comprehensive tutorial on maintaining and updating a Drupal installation and it's modules
I'm looking for a comprehensive tutorial on best practices for updating and maintaining a Drupal installation and it's modules where there are multiple instances of the site, that is having a ...
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Export/Deploy Drupal site/page to static? (no cache)
I wonder if there is an existing module that can help in the subject.
I am not looking for a caching module (like Boost or Varnish), but a way to export my whole site (or only certain pages) into ...
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Deploying block settings as an update script?
I need to add a block to an existing Drupal site and would like to if possible automate the process using hook_update_N or something similar.
Specifically I'm referring to the position and region of ...
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Deploying code to multiple front end servers
We have a situation where we have multiple load balanced servers pointing to a common database.
In the normal run of things this works fine and gives redundancy, scalability etc.
However we are ...
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Amazon EC2 Virtual Server setup and deploying Drupal 7 website
All,
Has anyone any tutorials/ instructions of how to go about configuring AWS EC2 server and then deploying Drupal 7 website (including db)?
Much appreciated
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Deploying content updates from staging server to live server
We are trying to deploy content updates from our staging server to our live server but are having difficulty finding a good way to do this. We need to be able to deploy new pages, page updates and ...
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Deploying Drupal with Git [closed]
What is the best practice for deploying Drupal to production servers with Git?
