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02 Setup legacy awebfactory.com docker-based instance for content migration #1

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See awebfactory/frontity-awf#3 for minimum viable product hypotheses.

TODO: reference our own DurableDrupal docker-compose solution repo, which explains briefly how to use it, plus shows how it was developed and used step by step

User Story

The legacy site must be saved locally, for posterity's sake :) but also to migrate content to new WordPress backend. This will be done with drush scripts extracting content to json, and wp-cli scripts to inserting content to new backend.

Notable existing solutions and background info

There are many solutions for creating a local dev instance of Drupal (even older versions like mine (D6)), the best being

The amazing @socketwench solutions with rich background info shout out from 2016, but just what I need for Drupal 6:

These from Ricardo Amaro on GitHub (@ricardoamaro):

as well as

And then, there's mine of course: using this repo I rolled my own using docker compose to containerize an existing full site

Full and detailed instructions in the README file accompanying this repo explain how to use and fully customize the docker-compose file to get your ancient and favorite Drupal 6 legacy sites up and running on your laptop without using any third-party product.

(if you need any assistance please file an issue ...)

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