[chef] Re: Automated Drupal cookbook

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Sachin Sagar Rai 
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> Hi, Is there any cookbook for Drupal that does the whole installation
> without going to http://<server_fqdn>/install.php manually after
> installation?

Unfortunately this is a symptom of software being designed to have a
simple web interface for configuration that makes it difficult to
automatically configure it. This is because the developers naturally
then associate a web interface with a database, and these
configuration options are stored in deep, dark locations. But now that
there is a simple interface to change those, it doesn't come up that
it is hard to modify them through any other interface.

There is a drupal cookbook on the community site [1] that requires
manually browsing install.php. It also includes a recipe to install
drush. I'm not familiar with drupal, but from the drush web site it
appears to be a command line interface to drupal. Perhaps this /could/
be automated to configure drupal in lieu of the install.php page.

http://drupal.org/project/drush

Bryan

[1] http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/drupal