[support] Install and configure modules only once for all websites running the same drupal install?

[Casper Labuschagne]

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:37:15 +0200, Larry Garfield  
<larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:

> Actually the answer is "mostly".  If you put a module in the /modules
> directory instead of /sites/foo/modules, then it becomes available to all
> sites.

Correct

> Any configuration you have to do, however, is per-site

That is the way I am doing it per - site

> In most cases, you probably don't want to have configuration shared  
> between two sites.  Think very hard before you do so.

I have played with this and it is a bigger headache sharing configurations  
than redoing manual configurations.  What I am investigating is to  
selectively export specific tables from one site to another such as the  
user file.

Due to restrictions by my hosting co I am forced to use a rigid control  
panel and all hosted sites out of my account are fixed dirs directly below  
public_html/ , thus the Drupal scheme of shared code could not work for  
me.  What I have done is to create symlinks to the appropriate dirs (I  
even have a bash script to instantly create the links for new sites)  Thus  
I have ~/public_html/mysite/ with symlinks to  
~/public_html/drupal_47/database ./includes etc.  Only ./files and ./sites  
and ./modules/xtra (for contributed modules) are unique dirs for any  
shared site.  This works like a charm with a single codebase shared  
between all sites.  Security updates for Drupal means a single set of  
files copied to drupal_47 .  The contributed modules in ./modules/xtra are  
also manual symlinks to ./drupal_47/modules/xtra/my_module or whatever  
appropriate module is required.

Hope this helps someone

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