Setting up MCFileManager on Drupal 7 with Capistrano
I needed to install MCFileManager on a capified Drupal 7 project. I followed these instructions, but changing the upload directory and getting things to work with Capistrano was slightly complicated. Here are a few lessons I learned…
1. The filemanager module must be installed in /sites/all/modules
I’ve been installing all contributed modules in /sites/all/modules/contrib, but this didn’t work with filemanager. There’s probably a workaround, but I didn’t take the time to figure it out.
2. By default, MCFileManager will upload files to /sites/all/modules/filemanager/files
We use git for version control and I’ve been using the amazing Capistrano ruby gem to deploy. To keep things manageable and consistent, I like to keep all of my uploaded files in my .gitignored /sites/default/files/ directory.
To set this up, I converted the /sites/all/modules/filemanager/files directory into a symlink to /sites/default/files/filemanager like this:
# cd into the document root, then...
mkdir sites/default/files/filemanager
# backup the default filemanager upload directory
mv sites/all/modules/filemanager/files sites/all/modules/filemanager/files.bak
# symlink /sites/all/modules/filemanager/files to sites/default/files/filemanager
cd sites/all/modules/filemanager && ln -s ../../../default/files/filemanager files
This worked in my local dev environment, but I had issues after I deployed to my staging environment.
Turns out that MCFileManager doesn’t play well with symlinks. Since Capistrano relies on symlinks, things were broken. I could upload files through MCFileManager, but it generated broken links. Not good.
To make things work on the staging server, I had to set the following values in my filemanager/config.php file:
$mcFileManagerConfig['preview.wwwroot'] = 'files';
$mcFileManagerConfig['preview.urlprefix'] = "/sites/default/files/filemanager";
...
$mcFileManagerConfig['filesystem.path'] = 'files';
$mcFileManagerConfig['filesystem.rootpath'] = 'files';
After a few hours of Googling, trial, and error, my WYSIWYG file uploader works!
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