Outline of Drupal Gardens setup and site export

ENTICE meeting12 November 2010Silvia TomaninDG-CO

What is it?

• www.drupalgardens.com

• Drupal-as-a-service platform

• For creating and hosting Drupal 7 websites

• No need to install software

• Many features ready to use

• Possibility to export your sites

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How to get a site?

• Registration

• Site creation

• Choose the name sitename.drupalgardens.com

• Choose the template

• Choose the default functionalities

• Possibility to change the domain name.

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What do we get?

• A Drupal 7 website with a set of features ready-to-use.

• Pages

• Blog entries

• News items

• FAQ items

• Gallery

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What can we customize?

• Themes

• You can pick an existent one, edit and export it

• You can’t import your own theme

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Work in progress on the site import feature

What can we customize?

• Modules (1/2)

• Many available by default• Core modules

• Wysiwyg

• Spam protection

• Mailing list

• Pathauto

• Gallery

• Google Analytics

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What can we customize?

• Modules (2/2)

• What is missing• Authentication modules (shib_auth, ldap)

• Multilingual support

• Voting API and Fivestar

• Wiki

• Workflow

• You can’t import your own modules

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Work in progress on the site import feature

Site export

• If you need to add functionalities you can export and host the site yourself

• How? http://www.drupalgardens.com/mysites

More

Export site

Save the .tar.gz file

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Site export

• The export includes

• Drupal 7 core files

• Database

• Modules, themes and content

• Site and module configuration settings

• Users

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Site import

• Extract the files in your DocumentRoot

• Import the database

• Adjust settings.php file

• Hosting the site yourself you can add and/or develop your own themes and modules

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Work in progress on the site import feature

In brief

• PRO: perfect to become familiar with Drupal 7 without caring about hosting and maintenance. Possibility to export the whole site.

• CONS: not very customizable for special sites, no themes or modules import or dev (unless you host it yourself).

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Questions?

Questions?

Comments?

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