Drupal

Automating Drupal 6 installation by a Perl script

Submitted by yoi on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 17:49

How can we efficiently deploy Drupal websites? Installing a Drupal website is rather straightforward. But it involves many small critical steps that always waste my time. One day, I came up to an idea that using a simple Perl script to (semi-)automate the procedures would save both time and accuracy resulting in higher productivity. Also, systematically generating new Drupal websites helps me manage them well later. In this post, I would like to share my approach to setting up new Drupal websites.

1. Overview

A Drupal installation roughly requires the following steps:

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