Drupal Deployment Notes

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Drupal Deployment using Drush
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Deploying a Drupal site means transporting a codebase to a target host and installing the site using a database.

Concepts:
  - Build: build a codebase and all the dependencies
  - Deploy: transport the codebase onto a remote machine
  - Install: Install the software
  - Migrate (borrowed from Aegir): Migrate an existing database into a new codebase.
  - Re-configure web server: ?

Assumptions:
  - All hosts have equivalent versions of Drush.


Build and Deploy Combined
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Building a Drupal project which uses an installation profile involves the following information and steps.

Requirements:
  - Build file (buildfile): a hosted (distro) make file available over the internet that can be used to build the entire project.
  - Host (targethost): the host machine where the codebase is going to get built.
  - Path (targetpath): the path where the project is going to get built.

Method:
  // ssh to the targethost
  $ drush make --prepare-install buildfile targetpath
  // goto install


Install
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dbuser_target = root
dbpass_target = rootpass
dbhost_target = localhost
db_target = existingdb 

  $ cd targetpath
  $ drush si --db-url="mysql://dbuser_target:dbpass_target@dbhost_target/db_target
  // goto configure webserver


Re-configure Web Server
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wwwroot = /path/to/wwwroot
release_target = /path/to/release

  // delete wwwroot if it exists
  $ ln -s /path/to/release /path/to/wwwroot