Installer: Fix URL-based installation for D7 (etc)
Overview
The current docs advise that you can install on Drupal by pasting the URL of the tarball:
This is not currently working.
Reproduction steps
- Create an empty D7 site
- Login as admin
- Navigate to "Modules => Install New Module"
- Give a URL like
https://download.civicrm.org/latest/civicrm-STABLE-drupal.tar.gz
Current behavior
It shows an error, "Symbolic links are not allowed. Unable to extract"
Expected behavior
It downloads and extracts the tarball.
Environment information
- CiviCRM: 5.28 or 5.29 (Most likely everything since 5.13 / 2f0db034)
- CMS: Drupal 7.x-dev