[DUG-TO] Drupal installed onto NAS boxes

[Jamon Camisso]

Donald Dalley wrote:
> Hi, Drupal fans:
> 
> I've noticed that Joomla is being installed on some NAS (Network
> Attached Storage) boxes now, so I have two questions.
> 
> Is anyone working with companies that make NAS boxes, such as D-Link,
> to ensure that Drupal is also available on them?
> 
> Is it possible to install a CMS (Drupal, of course) onto a NAS box
> that isn't already set up to do this?
> 

Hi Donald,

If the NAS is mounted locally, you can treat it like you would any other 
directory/partition. With Linux a NAS usually uses CIFS (Common Internet 
File System) e.g. mount -t cifs. Once mounted, it is up to whatever is 
accessing the filesystem to look after locking and writes etc. over the 
network e.g. apache. I'll go out on a limb and say that if apache can 
serve joomla from a NAS, then it can serve <insert your php script of 
choice here> from one as well.

Jamon