Geoff Hankerson

Cross posted at http://groups.drupal.org/node/30270.

Aegir install on OSX Snow Leopard

Aegir install instructions are fantastic if you run Debian/Ubuntu Linux. Some of the steps for OS X are a quite different

Note: it took me several tries to get this working. If you are new to DNS be patient with yourself - you'll get it, but may take a few tries.

Building your own platform on top of Drupal for managing many sites.

(Drupal folks I would love to hear how this is similar or different than your workflow. Please leave a comment).

Using Drupal's multi-site features, installation profiles and Drush, features and context modules, as well as a version control repository like Subversion, you can build your own fine-tuned platform to deploy and host multiple sites with similar features while still retaining the ability to customize each particular site as needed.

This saves headaches.


for i in $(svn st | grep "?" | awk '{print $2}'); do svn add $i; done;


found via http://blog.chrisramsay.co.uk/2009/02/09/add-multiple-items-into-svn-rep...

Packt Press was kind enough to send me a copy of "Learning Drupal 6 Module Development" by Matt Butcher. After being slightly disappointed with their Drupal 6 Themes offering, I find this book to be a superb introduction to building modules in Drupal 6. I usually approach Drupal as a themer so module development is somewhat new to me (although I have written a few small glue modules).