DLIT Drupal Development Server Setup

Here is some documentation:

What is below here is obsolete. We're on a different server now with a different organization and workflow.

This describes the organization of the Drupal sites DLIT has on our test server.

The test server is libdev (library3.library.cornell.edu) . There are lots of other things on this server besides the Drupal stuff.

Server

Each site is located under /webvision-dev/apache2/drupals/ in a directory named with the prefix test. (eg. test.mysite.library.cornell.edu)
- A new set of sites is coming with the domain suffix test1.library.cornell.edu (eg. http://preservation.test1.library.cornell.edu/ )
  - these have directories in the /webvision-dev/apache2/drupals/ also (eg. preservation.test.library.cornell.edu)
Each site has these subdirectories on the server
- bkp - scripts to backup & restore file system and mysql database for the site, site backups
- build - scripts to check out modules and themes from Subversion Version Control System (SVN) & place them on the site
- conf - virtual host configuration file
- htdocs - web visible site
- logs - large sticks
Your user account on libdev
- install drush - drupal shell commands
  - put the drush directory in ~/bin so you can find ~/bin/drush/drush.php
- be a member of the solaris group diglibdev-role
- install drush module manager
  - put in ~/.drush directory so ~/.drush/drush_mm/README.txt

Desktop

The developer checks out the site from SVN
svn+ssh://your-netid-here@libdev.library.cornell.edu/webvision-dev/svn/sites
onto his/her desktop machine to find this structure:

Drupal-Sites - top directory in our SVN repository
- mysite.library.cornell.edu - directory for the site's manifest files
  - webvision.manifest - list of themes and modules from the main library website SVN repository
  - contrib.manifest - list of auxiliary themes and modules from the main library website SVN repository
  - site.manifest - list of themes and modules from the Drupal-Sites/drupal-v6-parts directory in our SVN repository
- drupal-site-scripts - various server side scripts
  - bkp - scripts for the site backup and restore process
  - build - scripts for the deploy process
- drupal-v6-parts - mostly modules and themes from drupal.org and its contributors
  - commonspot_migration - coldfusion and php code for exporting commonspot sites and importing them into Drupal
  - libraries - a couple of web based text editors for Drupal
  - modules - the latest release version of all the Drupal modules any of our sites use
    - custom - modules we have written
      - cu_aerialny - reverse geocoding, processes for aerial-ny.library.cornell.edu
      - cu_banners - 45 pixel Cornell banners
      - cu_eship - tools for eship.library.cornell.edu
      - cu_olinuris - fix absolute paths - hook_node_operations
      - cu_template - blocks for our Cornell theme
      - culauth - CUWebAuth interface for Drupal login & account creation
      - feednodefixer - part of commonspot import
      - ltsprocedures - part of commonspot import for LTS site
  - themes - skins for Drupal sites
    - communications - theme for communications.library.cornell.edu based on cuwebtemplate
    - cul - early basic CUL theme
    - cul_aerial_ny - theme for aerial-ny.library.cornell.edu based on zen
    - cul_cuneiform - theme for cuneiform.library.cornell.edu based on zen
    - cuwebtemplate - standard CUL theme
    - cuwebtemplatev2 - new improved CUL theme
    - eship - theme for eship.library.cornell.edu based on cuwebtemplate
    - math_library - theme for mathematics.library.cornell.edu based on cuwebtemplate
    - physical_sciences_library - theme for psl.library.cornell.edu
    - rau - theme for research.library.cornell.edu
    - wordsworth - a theme for wordsworth collection
    - zen - standard starter theme from Drupal.org

Work-flow

Update a site on the test server

locate the site under /webvision-dev/apache2/drupals/
in the htdocs directory, run drush cache clear
in the htdocs directory, run drush status to get the database particulars
in the bkp directory, run the backup.sh script to save a copy of the filesystem and database
log in to Drupal site as user #1
put the Drupal site into 'maintenance mode'
in the build directory, run the deploy script
run update.php on the site
check the site - problems? restore backup
take the site our of maintenance mode

Add an existing module or theme to a site

edit the site.manifest file to add new module or theme
check in modified manifest file
do 'update a site on the test server' above

Add a new module or theme

download module/theme from Drupal.org into an empty directory
unzip/untar
copy resulting directory into ...\A1Projects\Drupal-Sites\drupal-v6-parts\modules (or ...themes) on your desktop machine
select directory and SVN Add
select directory and SVN Commit
do 'update a site on the test server' above

Create a new site

ask Enrico Silterra to do the tasks for setting up a new site
- set up subdomain (eg. mysite.test1.library.cornell.edu)
- set up directory structure on libdev (eg. /webvision-dev/apache2/drupals/mysite)
- create mysql database and user for Drupal
- install drupal core files and doctor sites/default/settings.php to include user/password/db for this site
- create subversion directory for the site under Drupal-Sites
- get CUWebAuth set up if necessary
go to the site and run the Drupal install (eg. http://mysite.test1.library.cornell.edu/install.php)
you may need to update the Drupal core if it's out of date
check out Drupa-Sites/mysite.library.cornell.edu from SVN
add whatever modules you need to site.manifest
webvision.manifest should only have modules/cul_common (other webvision modules are out of date)
check in your changes to Drupa-Sites/mysite.library.cornell.edu
do the 'Update a site on the test server' procedure
add a line to /webvision-dev/apache2/drupals/crons/testcrons
- (eg. /opt/common/bin/wget -0 - -q http://mysite.test1.library.cornell.edu/cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1 )

Update Drupal Core

get a copy of the latest production version of drupal extracted onto your disk from http://drupal.org/
backup the file system and database as outlined in 'Update a site on the test server' procedure
log in to Drupal site as user #1
put the site in off-line maintenance mode /admin/settings/site-maintenance
disable all the non-essential modules
- go to the htdocs directory
- use this to check which are enabled:
  - drush mm list
  - missing: getid3 token
    enabled: advanced_help autologout block color comment computed_field contact content content_copy content_permissions content_taxonomy content_taxonomy_autocomplete content_taxonomy_options cu_template cul_common culauth date date_api date_locale date_popup date_timezone date_tools dblog devel email fieldgroup filefield filter globalredirect help imagefield insert_view jq jq_bridge jquery_ui link locale menu menu_breadcrumb node node_import nodereference number optionwidgets path search site_map system taxonomy taxonomy_manager text tracker update user views views_bulk_operations views_ui webform wysiwyg xmlsitemap
    disabled: actions_permissions aggregator blog blogapi book content_taxonomy_tree date_php4 date_repeat devel_generate devel_node_access devel_themer feednodefixer filefield_meta filefield_token forum help_example ltsprocedures macro openid performance php ping poll profile statistics syslog throttle translation trigger upload userreference views_export xmlsitemap_engines xmlsitemap_node xmlsitemap_taxonomy xmlsitemap_user
- use this to disable modules
  - drush mm disable advanced_help autologout color comment computed_field contact content content_copy content_permissions content_taxonomy content_taxonomy_autocomplete content_taxonomy_options cu_template cul_common culauth date date_api date_locale date_popup date_timezone date_tools dblog devel email fieldgroup filefield globalredirect help imagefield insert_view jq jq_bridge jquery_ui link locale menu menu_breadcrumb node_import nodereference number optionwidgets path search site_map taxonomy taxonomy_manager text tracker update views views_bulk_operations views_ui webform wysiwyg xmlsitemap
  - leave these modules enabled: block filter node system user
delete the old Drupal except for the sites directory
- go to htdocs
- rm *.txt *.php
- rm -R includes/ misc/ themes/ modules/ scripts/ profiles/
upload the new drupal into htdocs
run update.php
enable all the modules
- drush mm enable advanced_help autologout color comment computed_field contact content content_copy content_permissions content_taxonomy content_taxonomy_autocomplete content_taxonomy_options cu_template cul_common culauth date date_api date_locale date_popup date_timezone date_tools dblog devel email fieldgroup filefield globalredirect help imagefield insert_view jq jq_bridge jquery_ui link locale menu menu_breadcrumb node_import nodereference number optionwidgets path search site_map taxonomy taxonomy_manager text tracker update views views_bulk_operations views_ui webform wysiwyg xmlsitemap
run update.php again
check the site
take the site out of maintenance mode /admin/settings/site-maintenance

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