Managing a drupal installation with cvs and git

Managing multiple drupal installations can be a pain. You have to track changes to drupal-core and all the individual modules that you use, as well as managing your own custom modules and your own custom changes to drupal-core. And if if you’re doing this with several different drupal installations it can get inconvenient quickly.

A lot of this hassle can be reduced by installing drupal from cvs rather than installing one of the releases, and by keeping your installation under version control (in this article I use git but you could use any VCS such as mercurial, svn etc).

Here I describe how I manage my drupal installations using the drupal cvs repository and git.  read more »

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Drupal 5 upgrade

This site runs drupal. Over the weekend I upgraded from drupal 4.7 to drupal 5.1. This was a major upgrade and it took me several attempts to get everything working. My database has gotten a bit crufty since it has been previously upgraded from drupal 4.6 and has had a lot of modules installed and unistalled over the last couple of years. So if you notice any errors or oddness on the site please let me know.

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Updated Drupal SIOC exporter

I released some updates to the drupal sioc plugin yesterday. The main change is added support for using the drupal story module to run a single-user blog (like this one).

The new version is now running at this site and at the SIOC project website.

For more info on the module see the drupal project page.

About SIOC

SIOC is a way of describing blogs, forums, comunities for the semantic web. For more information on SIOC see

Here is an example of some sioc data describing the forums at sioc-project.org.  read more »

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Installing Drupal on FreeBSD

This document describes the steps I took to get Drupal installed and working on FreeBSD. I used freebsd 4.11-release and drupal 4.6.0.  read more »