[support] Drush Questions

[Moses Elias (2)]

After setting up PUTTY on Ubuntu, and receiving SSH access permission 
from my hosting provider, Victor's instructions for setting up drush 
worked like a charm.

Thanks!

On 20/04/2010 12:42, Victor Kane wrote:
> Many shared hosting sites these days give shell access upoon request. 
> For example, site5 does. Otherwise change to one which does.
>
> Once you have shell access, you can unpack drush into a subdirectory, 
> say ~/bin/drush (where ~ is your home directory where you log in, i.e. 
> /home/mysite). Then the executable will be at ~/bin/drush/drush .   
> Change to that directory and make sure it is executable
>
> $ chmod u+x drush
>
> then execute it:
>
> "./drush".
>
> If you see the familiar drush help file, dependencies will have been 
> met, you are all set.
>
> Add the following line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile file in your 
> home directory:
>
> alias drush=/home/mysite/bin/drush/drush
>
> And you should be all set to go.
>
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
> http://projectflowandtracker.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Moses Elias (2) <iom at netvision.net.il 
> <mailto:iom at netvision.net.il>> wrote:
>
>     Please explain why not? After all we do have FTP access to our hosting
>     providers.  Many of us are small developers and this is of major
>     importance to us and and should be emphasized to the drush team.
>
>     I don't see why certain commands such as downloading modules remotely
>     shouldn't be possible through drush, while perhaps running other
>     commands disabled if there are security related issues on those.
>
>
>     On 20/04/2010 09:51, Mohd Kamal Bin Mustafa wrote:
>     > You need to have shell access (where you can execute command) to
>     your
>     > hosting provider. Otherwise, I think you're out of luck.
>     >
>
>     --
>     [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20100512/3109435c/attachment.html