Acquia Drupal Stack - FAQ
FAQs - Overview
- What is the Acquia Drupal stack installer for?
- What can't the stack installer do?
- How do I update an existing local Acquia Drupal site?
- How do I get stack installer technical support?
- How do I install multiple, local Acquia Drupal sites?
- How do I delete an existing site and start over?
1. What the Acquia Drupal stack installer is for
The Acquia Drupal stack installer application is an easy way to get started with Acquia Drupal.
- In just a few clicks, you have a full Acquia Drupal website up-and-running on your computer.
- With a few clicks more, you can install as many as you need.
- You can use these sites to evaluate Acquia Drupal, adding other Drupal components, testing workflows and functionality - and even get things wrong without worrying about ruining a live, production website.
2. What the stack installer can't do
The stack installer is not designed to overwrite or update an existing Acquia Drupal installation on your computer.
3. How do I update an existing Acquia Drupal site on my computer?
The Acquia Drupal stack installer can only take care of the initial installation. It cannot update or upgrade modules or other components of your local Acquia Drupal installation.
See the Keeping your installation up-to-date section of this guide for instructions.
For more in-depth instructions on how to upgrade an existing Acquia Drupal website to a newer version of Acquia Drupal, please also see the Migrating from Drupal 6.x to Acquia Drupal chapter of the Getting Started with Acquia Drupal guide (download it from http://acquia.com/downloads), which also covers this procedure.
4. How do I get technical support for problems with the installer?
All registered users of acquia.com are encouraged to participate in the installer support forums.
- Check the Windows, Mac or Windows Web Platform Installer forums to see if other users are experiencing similar problems to yours.
- When making a new forum post, include if present, installer.log and piscript.log from your installation directory. These files help in the troubleshooting process.
- Stack installer support questions may also be sent to installer-support@acquia.com. Be sure to attach the aforementioned log files.
5. How do I install multiple, local Drupal sites?
The Acquia Drupal Stack Installer supports multiple sites and has a simple wizard-type functionality for creating them quickly and easily. See the Adding additional local sites section of this documentation.
6. How do I delete an existing site and start over?
The Acquia Drupal stack installer cannot "overwrite" a current local site, but if you need to start over for whatever reason, simply follow the instructions on how to delete a local site from the installer control panel in the Adding additional local sites instructions.
Tamás Hajas
Is it portable? It was a
Is it portable?
It was a very nice idea to create the stack installer! Good work guys!
One question: is it portable? Could I install it to a pendrive and use with different PC-s?
(One can use the original XAMPP this way, so I think it should be possible - but I didn't try it.)
jam - Senior Wr...
Thanks for the input,
Thanks for the input, Tamás!
Here's our thinking on that at the moment:
- There's no reason not to run the installer from a USB when installing a DAMP stack onto your hard drive.
- Running the stack *from* a thumb drive would most likely lead to very poor MySQL performance and this is a configuration that we have not tested or feel comfortable supporting at this time.
If you get the stack up and running on your pendrive, we'd be interested to hear about your experiences.
Thanks again,
- jam
Documentation Lead.
Marc Cepeda
I'd like to take a crack at
I'd like to take a crack at this as well. Right now, I use Dropbox to keep my files "portable" in conjunction with Subversion (in case I forget to do a commit). It's really handy for me, but I wish the dev sites' db's were also portable. From what I've seen so far, it looks like it can be done. I'll have to run a few tests, but I think at most one would need is the ability to create symlinks where needed.
How do I move my Acquia
How do I move my Acquia Drupal website from my computer to the Web?
jam - Senior Wr...
Thanks for asking! Although
Thanks for asking! Although it would take several volumes to cover all the variations, permutations and potential problems possible during the migration process, covering the basics would be a good topic for a tutorial ...
In a nutshell:
The Backup and Migrate module can help with the database tasks.
Speaking purely as a Drupal
Speaking purely as a Drupal novice ...
The stack installer is a great idea especially as it provides such an easy method for setting up multisites.
Is a Linux version in the pipeline? (Please say, "Yes!") If so, when?
jam - Senior Wr...
The Acquia Drupal
The Acquia Drupal Ubuntu/Debian package will be released any day now.
However, it doesn't work exactly like the stack installers for Mac and Windows. For example, you have import and set up Drupal multisite configurations yourself in the file system.
See this page for more information: http://acquia.com/documentation/acquia-deb-package
- jam | Jeffrey A. McGuire | Senior Writer, Evangelist | jam@acquia.com