In order to begin developing a new Drupal site it is important to first follow some provisioning guidelines. Regardless of whether or not your new Drupal site will be developed on SAS Computing hosts, you must first conduct a Security and Privacy Impact Assessment, or SPIA, evaluation of the new site. To begin a SPIA evaluation please contact the information security group. The SPIA process will help determine if extra security and privacy protective measures should be put in place for your new Drupal site.

Once you have initiated the SPIA evaluation, you can either begin development on third party development servers that comply with SAS configuration guidelines and our approved modules. Be sure to review the security and style guidelines before you begin work to save having to change the site once it is developed.

If you wish to develop your site on our test environment please contact the ISUS group at isus@sas.upenn.edu. Once we set up a new site for development you will be given shell access for customizations. Bear in mind that a valid PennKey is required for this access.