By wernst on

OK, having been inspired by DrupalEd and DrupalBlog, I'm thinking about making a Drupal "distribution" for some of my clients who are interested in having a website sort of like mine. Basically, I don't feel like doing a totally clean installation, and then spending hours installing and configuring modules that I already have working great for me on my site.

Of course, I have more work to do with this, but I'm trying to figure out what the steps would be to make a basic "distribution," and by that I mean a Drupal installation with the extra modules installed, configured, and a basic taxonomy set up, along with a few themes, and some content in the form of a Book with instructions on Drupal use.

I'm *THINKING* that the process is to basically save my Drupal directory and all subdirectories from my webroot, and then export my MySQL database to a file.

Then for a new installation, I would copy the drupal directory to a new server's webroot, create a new empty Drupal databse and user, import the MySQL file I exported from before, alter the configuration files for the new host, domain name, database and database username/pw, and then if necessary, log into the new Drupal site and clear out most of the old content and users.

Is this basically the process, or is my understanding here completely out of whack? More detailed questions to come based on the answers I get here.

Thanks,
Warr

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cel4145 commented

That sounds about right. The idea is the same principle that is involved in moving a Drupal site from one server to another, except, of course, you clean it up for the base setup.

BTW: I GPL'd those instructions in the DrupalEd and DrupalBlog installs so that they can be revised and used as needed :)

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wernst commented

Hmmm, that's very interesting regarding the instructions, especially since I have no desire to reinvent the wheel. (I too am a professional writer - see my web page if you're really interested about this.)

Thanks for the confirmation about the "distro" building process. I'm not sure where I'm exactly going with this, but it certainly gets the mind going...

-Warr