Drupal Migration

As should be obvious to non-feed readers, I’ve migrated my blog to Drupal. This fits in with my greater plan of organising myself and moving into digs this holiday. Drupal is an awesome CMS - or maybe a better description is “the only decent CMS”. I’ve set up and maintained a few drupal sites, and have been very impressed with it.

I’ve yet to migrate all my previous blog-posts across, but by the time you see this post, that’ll be done. Vhata has walked this road before me (albeit from Serendipity), and I intent do follow his advice.

In the past, I mantained my Wordpress blog as an SVN install. This allowed me to install plugins with svn:externals, which made upgrades a doddle. Drupal uses CVS, so this approach wasn’t an option. After months of procrastination, I investigated config-manager. With it, I built a recipe for downloading drupal and all the modules I use with it. Then I committed this as a bzr tree, so that I could base all my sites on a common base. To install a module, I bzr mv modules/foo drupal/sites/all/modules/.

Now to update all my drupal sites, I update my config-manager recipe, and build a new master tree. Commit it to the repo, and push to launchpad. And then bzr merge in all the sites. It’s pretty quick and painless.

For anyone who’s interested, the modules I’m using are:

So far I’ve had to write a drupal module to support amatomu, and it was a bliss. Drupal’s API and code is some of the neatest PHP I’ve ever had to work with.

I think I’ll be happy here :-)

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Proof of concept

I’ve just used this bzr repository to update my Drupal sites to 5.6, and it was a piece of cake. Concept proven.

I’m fighting a few config-manager bugs, but that’s not a big problem…

thanks. I was looking for it

thanks. I was looking for it

wow..... that's what i

wow..... that's what i looking for... but for the complete solution may be you need to write a how to so beginner can understand the migration

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