Core CrazyShaun Haber
Warner Bros. Records
What is it?
• Basically, a look into how Warner Bros. Records uses Drupal!
Who the hell am I?
Warner Music Group
Warner Bros. Records
• Subsidiary of Warner Music Group
• Family of labels (Reprise, Sire, etc.)
• Over 100 artists
• Top-selling albums
• It’s music biz after all!
So what?
WBR Tech
• Only label with an in-house Tech team
• “Start-up” mentality
• Fast-paced, hectic, and fun!
• We use Drupal... religiously
93 Drupal Sites1 new site every week
Launching like crazy!
How do we do it?
It’s not magic!
Give each website its own vhost!
Drupal core and vhosts
Conf:DocumentRoot /path/to/drupal/core
BAD
Drupal core and vhostsConf:DocumentRoot /path/to/website
File System:/path/to/website -> /path/to/drupal/core
GOOD
Why?
• Flexibility
• Maintainability
• Core Crazy!
Remember these items
• Apache’s mod_vhost_alias
• Symbolic links
• Subversion
• Drupal’s CVS
• Shell scripts
Mod_vhost_alias
• Dynamic vhosts!
It’s a VirtualDocumentRoot
VirtualDocumentRoot /websites/%0
iamlights.com /websites/iamlights.com
ericbenet.net /websites/ericbenet.net
tour.remhq.com /websites/tour.remhq.com
Why this kicks ass!
• Don’t need to edit conf
• Don’t need to add new vhosts
• Don’t need to restart Apache!
• Seriously, this rocks
2 part domain:VirtualDocumentRoot /websites/%0/www
iamlights.com /websites/iamlights.com/www
ericbenet.net /websites/ericbenet.net/www
tour.remhq.com (see next slide)
3 part domain:VirtualDocumentRoot /websites/%2+/%1
www.iamlights.com /websites/iamlights.com/www
www.ericbenet.net /websites/ericbenet.net/www
tour.remhq.com /websites/remhq.com/tour
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/
mod_vhost_alias.html
Source: http://flickr.com/photos/iguanajo/109613363
Symbolic Links
ln -s /path/to/src alias
iamlights.com
/drupal/5.10
/drupal/5.11
iamlights.com
/drupal/5.10
/drupal/5.11
Simply change the symlink!
/drupal/5.10
/drupal/5.11
/drupal/shared
/sites
/sites
/sites
/drupal/5.10
/drupal/5.11
/drupal/shared
/sites
/sites
/sites
All cores share some stuff!
/drupal/shared
/sites
/lights
/sites/lights
/settings.php
/modules/themes
/drupal/shared
/sites
/lights
/sites/lights
/settings.php
/modules/themes
/iamlights.com
/iamlights.wbrdev.com
Dev and Prod envs!
/sites/lights
/settings.php
/modules
/drupal/modules/contrib
/cck
/5.x-1.6
/5.x-1.7
/cck
/sites/lights
/settings.php
/modules
/drupal/modules/contrib
/cck
/5.x-1.6
/5.x-1.7
/cck
Simply change the symlink!
/drupal/shared
/sites/all
/modules
/drupal/modules/contrib
/admin_menu
/5.x-2.5
Safe modules in sites/all
It’s symlink madness!
Subversion
• /drupal5x /cores /sites /modules /contrib /custom
Drupal CVS
• http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/
Shell Script
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