By Steady on

Hello,

I have been using Drupal for a while now and love it.

Now I want to convert many of the sites we operate over to Drupal.

Is there a quicker way to install drupal and the various extra modules we use?

At the last count, there are at least 50 separate sites I want to convert to Drupal.

The first step for each is installing Drupal.

Many of the sites are on different servers etc and for most if not all, I want to do an individual install of Drupal.

Most of the add on modules would be common to each site.

So is there a simple way to create say a "Customised Installation" and then simply copy this for each site and then go into each individual site and carry out the necessary minor tweaks.

This would be better than then having to load individual modules and configure them from scratch for each site.

In other words I am hoping to save many hours of installation time.

Is this possible?

Many thanks,

Sam

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Steady’s picture

Steady commented

Can anyone help with my question above?

Thanks.

rubenvarela’s picture

rubenvarela commented

Well, I haven't worked with installation profiles, but that might be what you need...

Installation profiles are a feature in Drupal core that was added in the 5.x series. The Drupal installer allows you to specify an installation profile which defines which modules should be enabled, and can customize the new installation after they have been installed. This will allow customized "distributions" that enable and configure a set of modules that work together for a specific kind of site (Drupal for bloggers, Drupal for musicians, Drupal for developers, and so on).

There are some installation profiles here http://drupal.org/project/installation+profiles that you might want to check out...

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

What i've done is setup a 'base' site with everything the sites will have in common, then backup the db and the files and restore to all the new sites.

Steady’s picture

Steady commented

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

It's not quite as easy as I imagined it should be.

I notice that on the homepage of drupal, there is this article:

http://drupal.org/node/647374

Is that what we need?

Thanks,
Sam

pepemty’s picture

pepemty commented

...on what you need.
Maybe an installation profile is what you need for each and every one of those 50 sites, maybe not. And I guess you're the one who can answer that issue.
That or hire a pro to help you out... :-)

Warm regards from sunny México!
Pepe
:-)

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Another option to consider: http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system