By 2Hearts on

Looking in the cookbook, it refers to a DeveloperSide.net package, but where can I find it? It isn't on the Drupal site.

It also refers to sections of the handbook ("setting up a development environment", "getting started") which I can't find. Is there a handbook download somewhere or something?

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grobemo’s picture

grobemo commented

I don't know anything about the developerside.net package, but the handbooks, including the Getting Started handbook, are available by clicking on the Documentation tab from the tabs in the top right corner of this page.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

as http://developerside.net is a different website their software wouldn't be available on drupal.org... their webdeveloper package should be available as a download from their site.

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Quietstorm commented

Hey I'm just getting started with Drupal myself and the developerside.net package is at the website developerside.net LOL or to be more specific its http://www.devside.net/server/downloads and the handbook I am unsure of right now but other places to look for help beginning drupal http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/drupal-tutorial/ or just google something such as "beginner's tutorial for Drupal" hope that helped a little

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devside_net commented

You can find the devside.net Community Edition located on our SourceForge page here...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webdeveloper/

The Community Edition has been temporarily taken down (from our site) until we can finalize the core and architecture of the next version of the Suite.

The Community Edition is based on the Professional version, minus some features, and any new release now without a solid base, would just be temporary and transitional.

The next release of Community Edition will coincide with the release of the next major branch of Professional Edition. Until then we will not support or update Community v2.0.

But we do promise that we have not discontinued Community Edition and it will be released again (on our site) sometime in the near future.

In about two months we will be releasing the next version of the Suite.

It's going to be fully GUI based and I've been personally working on the codebase for the last 8 months full time... Automatic 1-click setup of websites and application (such as Drupal), GUI-based Apache | PHP | MySQL configuration, auto-installation of web applications, auto-updates to all the components, a full event and module system, API, etc. It's going to be a quantum leap from what you can get right now anywhere, in Linux or Windows/IIS-land. Most of it is already working; it's definitely not vaporware.

Check back soon.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Thanks for the update! I'm looking forward to the new release.

2Hearts’s picture

2Hearts commented

Administrator; please remove this thread from the forum. I submitted it several days ago and my questions have been answered. It is no longer needed and its continued presence will just add redundancy.

Thank-you

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Thanks-- but we don't delete content on drupal.org. Besides, this thread contains an update from the developerside.net folks that may indeed be useful to other users.

m_i_c_h_a_e_l’s picture

m_i_c_h_a_e_l commented

Quick question:

I am using the Community Edition on my pc to learn about, and develop a drupal website. It's incredibly helpful and easy to work with.

The package comes with Drupal 5.13.

I would like to upgrade to the latest version of drupal.

What is the easiest way to do that?

I am willing to start fresh, and reinstall the web developer package, swapping out the versions before I do the install. Or I could do an upgrade after installing the package.

As you can see, I don't know much about what I am trying to do. Please walk me through the steps, if this is even possible.

Second quick question:

I want to install the drupaled installation profile. Is that also possible with the community edition?

If possible, please walk me through that one too.

Thanks.

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WorldFallz commented

You can upgrade drupal in the standard way. See the UPGRADE.txt file in the drupal directory as well as http://drupal.org/upgrade here on drupal.org.

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m_i_c_h_a_e_l commented

Thanks for the info.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, but is there an easier way to do the upgrade?

The standard upgrade instructions assume that I already have a site and database in place. I don't. I have a freshly downloaded copy of the webdeveloper.net package, which includes drupal, joomla, etc. I have done a couple of installs and reinstalls, learning all the time.

But now I want to uninstall everything and do a completely fresh install of the webdeveloper package. But before I actually install drupal, I want to swap out the old 5.13 version for the latest version, which I have already downloaded. So I don't have any databases or configuration settings to protect.

I assume that it's just a matter of replacing the old version with the new version before choosing to install drupal. But I also assume I would have to make a few edits to the various files used in the initial installation. The cookbook makes it sound like you just have to rename a few directories, but it seems to need more than that.

If I can't do it this way, please let me know and I'll humbly go through the longer route.

Thanks again for your help.

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WorldFallz commented

Ah ok, I see what you're trying to do. I don't have webdeveloper handy (i use wampserver now) but i think should be able to do this simply by replacing the files in the drupal directory with the current version before running the drupal install.

m_i_c_h_a_e_l’s picture

m_i_c_h_a_e_l commented

Thanks WorldFallz.

Just for everyone's information (i.e. anyone who needs it) I figured it out. If you replace the files before you do the install, you get hit with all kinds of errors.

You just have to do the regular install, with the drupal version that comes packaged with webdeveloper. Then do an upgrade. Skip over all the steps about backing up databases and configurations, since you don't have those anyway.

If I had just read through the instructions carefully, I could have figured it all out.

Thanks to all who assisted. My new website is developing nicely. Drupal really is king.