Thank you for the quick response. I've been using symlinks thus far, but would like to use something that I could manage either through the admin interface or the settings.php file. In theory, if it were a module with a config interface, I could allow the sub-site administrators to enable or disable blocks of modules without giving them write access to the filesystem. One of our goals/requirements is to manage all modules centrally & prevent site admins from potentially installing an unmaintained or unpatched module. Unfortunately this means that each site's admin/build/modules page has a significant load time and with enough modules/categories listed to hinder an admin's ability to quickly find something suited to a specific task. On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Matt Chapman wrote:
I would go low-tech and just create symlinks to sites/all/modules-advanced in each of the desired sites/sitename/modules . For mor etech, maybe write a shell script to add & remove these links automatically from a config file, if frequent maintenance is required.
-Matt
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Justin Davis <justindavis@mail.utexas.edu>wrote:
Hello All.
My apologies if this belongs in "support" rather than "development".
I am managing a multi-site drupal installation and would like to be able to offer groups of modules to a sub set of our sites without having to have them installed in each sites/sitename/modules folder.
Basically, there are some advanced and developer modules that my more adept users need but that I would rather not be available to some of our novice site managers.
Ideally, I would be able to define something in the settings.php that told drupal to look in:
sites/all/modules sites/all/modules_advanced sites/sitename/modules
The only possible solution that I've found would be to create a custom module that defined it's own "module_rebuild_cache" (maybe "extra_module_rebuild_cache" or such) that used a slightly modified "drupal_system_listing" that would be able to look outside of "sites/all/modules" and "sites/sitename/modules"
Does this make sense? Has anyone else come across a similar issue?
Thank you kindly, Justin Davis Liberal Arts ITS University of Texas at Austin
-- Justin Davis Liberal Arts ITS Sr. System Analyst justindavis@mail.utexas.edu