Patrick Teglia

Recently I found the Plugin Manager module (http://drupal.org/project/plugin_manager) and thought that it sounded wickedly cool, especially because it can allow you to install modules at the click of a button, and run upgrades directly from the admin, fetching all files directly from Drupal's servers. Getting it setup however is another beast altogether, and one that I figured I should document if the need arose to do it again.

My setup is on Slicehost with an Ubuntu server install, where I have root access and can manipulate my server configuration any way I see fit. If you do not have a similar arrangement, I am not sure how you might go about using SSH with this module. Here is how I did it.

First, I setup the module in the normal fashion, wget from the link on the http://drupal.org/project/plugin_manager page, un-tar-gzip it in my /sites/all/modules/contrib directory, and enable it in admin.

Next, you will need a couple of things installed on the server. I found the instructions in the comments of this issue about SSH2 to be not quite necessary. They would lead you to compiling your own SSH2 install. This is not needed. What is needed is the following lines typed into your servers shell session:

Then you need to add the following line to the bottom of /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini or whereever your active php.ini is:

Then of course you need to restart your web server with a quick

and you should be good to go. Check your /admin/plugin_manager/settings page and see if you now have a SSH section. You should!