Insight customizations to Drupal

This page tracks customizations made to a Drupal-based test instance for Fedora Insight.

Administrator access
You'll need full access to Drupal uid 1 (the site administrator account) to complete some of these steps.

If you're finished already with these general customizations, there's another page about Insight content configuration.

General changes

1. Install the AuthFAS module. The source is found here.

   cd /etc/drupal6/all/modules/
   git clone git://fedorapeople.org/home/fedora/pfrields/public_git/drupal-authfas-6x.git authfas

2. Install the Insight theme. (This doesn't exist yet, but it will. When it does, fill out this step. --pfrields 19:33, 14 August 2010 (UTC))
3. Install the Flexifilter module.
4. Install the Footnotes module.
5. Install the Views module.

Site building

1. In the Modules configuration module, enable the following modules in the Core - Optional section:
   • Aggregator
   • Book
   • Color
   • Comment
   • Content translation
   • Database logging
   • Help
   • Menu
   • Search
   • Taxonomy
   • Trigger
   • Update status
2. Enable the Flexifilter module in the Flexifilter section.
3. Enable the following modules in the Other section:
   • AuthFAS
   • Footnotes

Site configuration

1. Ensure the Site information settings are properly configured.
2. Configure the AuthFAS module with the following settings. The settings below point the AuthFAS module to a FAS instance on publictest4, and requires that anyone logging in be a member of the cla_done FAS group. Furthermore, it sets up email for each new user at username@fedoraproject.org.

   Location of FAS instance:  publictest4.fedoraproject.org/accounts
   FAS group for authenticated users:  cla_done
   Email domain used for FAS users:  fedoraproject.org

3. Enable Clean URLs. If you cannot enable them, your site is misconfigured. Visit the /usr/share/drupal6/.htaccess file and ensure that you've changed it according to the How to install Drupal page.
4. In the Performance settings, enable Normal caching. This should not affect development work. (If you find pages are not being refreshed as expected during development, disable caching.)

Content management

1. Add the Planet to the site:
   1. Under Feed aggregator add the RSS 2.0 feed for Planet Fedora as a new source, with the name Planet Fedora.
   2. Set the update interval to 1 hour.
   3. Under Site building visit the Blocks menu, place the new Planet aggregator in the right sidebar. The other defaults are acceptable.

   User management

   1. In the User settings module, set Public registrations to Only site administrators can create new user accounts.
   2. In the User settings module, disable signature and picture support.
   3. In the FAS instance, create three new groups:
      • cmsadmin
      • cmseditor
      • cmswriter
      In the Drupal instance, create three new roles:
      • administrator
      • editor
      • writer
      Edit each role to hook it to the appropriate FAS group listed above. To grant users more access to help with Drupal, use the FAS system -- not the Drupal instance.
   4. In the Permissions module, set the following permissions:
      
      

      Permission	anonymous user	authenticated user	administrator	editor	writer
      aggregator module
      access news feeds
      administer news feeds
      authfas module
      administer FAS settings
      block module
      administer blocks
      use PHP for block visibility
      book module
      access printer-friendly version
      add content to books
      administer book outlines
      create new books
      comment module
      access comments
      administer comments
      post comments
      post comments without approval
      filter module
      administer filters
      flexifilter module
      administer flexifilter
      locale module
      administer languages
      translate interface
      menu module
      administer menu
      node module
      access content
      administer content types
      administer nodes
      create book content
      create page content
      create story content
      delete any book content
      delete any page content
      delete any story content
      delete own book content
      delete own page content
      delete own story content
      delete revisions
      edit any book content
      edit any page content
      edit any story content
      edit own book content
      edit own page content
      edit own story content
      revert revisions
      view revisions
      system module
      access administration pages
      access site reports
      administer actions
      administer files
      administer site configuration
      select different theme
      taxonomy module
      administer taxonomy
      translation module
      translate content
      user module
      access user profiles
      administer permissions
      administer users
      change own username

   Reports

   TBD