Automating Drupal cron with OS X’s launchd

Found this great post on Configuring cron on Mac OS X Server 10.5.x in the Drupal documentation. I’d been wanting to do that with my original post on Building a Drupal Multi-Site development environment, but I hadn’t had time to figure it out.

The title of the page at Drupal says “Mac OS X Server“, but there’s nothing that says you can’t use this technique on OS X Client, and I believe it will work on everything 10.4.x and up.

So I’m going to show you how to tie it into the Multi-Site setup I created on my local machine for the previous blog post.   Continue reading

Building a Drupal development environment for Mac

I’ve been working on understanding the Drupal CMS for the past couple of weeks, and it can be a little bit confusing.  As usual with an open source project most of the documentation focuses on Unix/Linux or Windows.  There is some good information for Mac users, but for me, it seemed a little disjointed and was hard to bring together for a coherent setup.  This is my attempt to explain a complete setup, from start to finish, for doing web development on my local machine running OS X 10.4.  I’m completely new to Drupal, so if I could have done something better here, please let me know.

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