Re: [support] moving contributed modules to /sites/all

On Thursday 06 December 2007 04:56:19 Earnie Boyd wrote:

Quoting Sean Burlington sean@burlington.me.uk:

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Any tips on how it should be achieved would be much appreciated.

0. Put site offline.
1. Disable the module before moving it
2. Truncate cache* tables
3. Truncate sessions table
4. Move and enable the module
5. Review the variables and system tables for any likelihood issues,

e.g. the old path. 6. Put site online.

And be a good sport and take a backup before proceeding.

While Earnie's 'best practice' is probably the safer more sane way of doing it, I will say that I have been successful on my development system by simply moving the modules and then going to the modules page to refresh the system table. That doesn't mean there won't be a module or two that won't comply. Simply moving the modules and then expecting things to work correctly isn't enough.