Migration - Introduce a 3rd directory splitting data up to create a new code folder

[McFateM]

The migration docs and process currently suggest building a couple of directories:

• yourdomain-config -- Holds all of your configuration in subfolders: fedora, gsearch, solr, apache, etc.
• yourdomain-data -- Holds both FEDORA and Apache (./html folder) data, although much of what's in the Apache side of this is really 'code`.

I'd like to modify this to suggest three directories instead:

• yourdomain-config -- Remains unchanged. See above.
• yourdomain-data -- Holds both FEDORA and Apache data ONLY. On the Apache side this includes ONLY your ./html/sites/*/files/ directories.
• yourdomain-code -- Holds ONLY Apache code. This is everything under ./html EXCEPT any files/folders that are already in yourdomain-config or yourdomain-data.

The big advantage here is that as it currently stands, yourdomain-data can be a HUGE and unmanageable structure, even if you have a very small FEDORA repository. Creating yourdomain-code yields a large, but manageable structure.

[bseeger]

Hi Mark, can you point me to the docs where this is talked about?

Thanks!

[SummittDweller]

Sure, all of this is in... https:/github.com/Islandora-Collaboration-Group/ISLE-Documentation/tree/migration/docs/04_installation_migration. Note that this is the migration branch of the ISLE-Documentation repo that @bookishgirl created and has been working on, but the notion of having a config and data ONLY split has been in the docs from the very start I think.

I just find that large data directory difficult to manage. Since I have a handful of local workstations I copy things around at times, and anything that large is difficult to manage even if it's not in a Git repo.