We’re continuing on with the tutorials for the Drupal Multi-Site configuration that I set up on my Mac. All the domain and directory structure is based on that tutorial, so if you’ve done something slightly different, you’ll need to adjust as appropriate.
Category Archives: Drupal
Drupal used for new WhiteHouse.gov website
Hey, just saw this posting at MSNBC. It seems that the website for the White House is moving to Drupal. At the end of the article, it makes reference to the background technology being Drupal.
AWESOME!
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.