An Installation Profile | Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

Setting up a Distribution

Our first bit of work doesn't involve any coding. We need to set up the directories for our custom Drupal distribution.

Our goal is to create a distribution of Drupal that includes our modules and theme. We are not migrating a site.

Thus, we want to start out with a pristine copy of Drupal—one that has not yet been installed or configured. It's probably easiest to start with a fresh copy downloaded from Drupal.org. This ensures that we have the most recent set of security patches and so on.

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Migrating tip: you've got it already!

If you are working on an installation for migration instead of one intended for new sites, there is no need to start from a pristine configuration. You will want to keep all the changes you have made (including, probably, the settings files and the contents of the drupal/files/ directory.

Once we have a pristine copy of Drupal, we need to unpack it. To distinguish our distribution from the normal Drupal one, it is a good idea to rename the...

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