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Seedling is a module for building distributions based on the Lullabot 5-step drupal distributions method. To be clear this is not to generate an installation profile or a perfect, sustainable drupal distribution by any means. Here are some videos of how to use it (or use Drush since it's a Back up and Migrate add-on):
- How Seedling works and installing a Seedling based distribution
- How Seedling can be used to create a seedling based distribution off of itself (trippy I know)
Here is what this module does:
- Using Back up and Migrate it copies your database
- It then saves the database in the files folder in /seedling/
- Then it copies your entire site structure sans a bunch of folders and files like settings.php (obviously its removed!)
- Then it downloads the file to you as a tar
- You take the tar and throw it up on another server / localhost environment and run through a typical drupal installation process
- You now have a perfect clone of the original, which can be cloned via the same process and passed on which can be cloned via the same process and...you get the point
This seems like rather strange functionality to want so here's the pitch as to why to use this:
- You have a complex system and you want to quickly migrate it to another system for testing
- You want a mirror of your system to test new functionality on it
- You are having a problem and want to pass the entire state of the site to another individual to diagnose without giving them server access
- You want to show someone something quickly
- You want to pull your site down before a trip and keep building it offline
- You maintain a distribution and want to quickly share others ideas in file form
Right now it's been planned out how to scrub the data the way you want but at the moment this is an incredible "quick and dirty" way of turning any site in to a drupal distribution. Installation is pretty simple and not too out of the ordinary other then that you have to copy one folder into your /profiles folder on your drupal stack and need to be able to run backup and migrate.
The inspiration for this project came from lullabot's 5-step distros mentioned above and my own blog talking about Structured Anarchy
This project has been created as part of the ELMS initiative at Penn State.
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- Created by btopro on , updated
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Use at your own risk! It may have publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.
