Drupal
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What is drupal?
Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to larger corporate and political sites including whitehouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.
Set up drupal on Alpine Linux
This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup Drupal on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:
- Lighttpd with PHP
- Mysql
- drupal
Install lighttpd, PHP and MySql
Install the additional packages:
apk add lighttpd php-common php-iconv php-json php-gd php-curl php-xml php-pgsql php-imap
apk add php-pdo php-pdo_pgsql php-soap php-xmlrpc php-posix php-mcrypt php-gettext php-ldap php-ctype php-dom
Configure Lighttpd
vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Uncomment line:
include "mod_fastcgi.conf"
Start lighttpd service and add to needed runlevel
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default
Install extra packages:
apk add mysql mysql-client php-mysql php-mysqli php-pdo_mysql
Installing and configuring drupal
Install drupal
Make webapps folder
mkdir /usr/share/webapps/ -p
Download
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.0.tar.gz
Unpack and delete tar file
tar zxvf drupal-7.0.tar.gz rm drupal-7.0.tar.gz
Change Folder Name
mv drupal-7.0 drupal
Creating settings file
cp /usr/share/webapps/drupal/sites/default/default.settings.php /usr/share/webapps/drupal/sites/default/settings.php
Change Folder Persmissions
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/drupal
Make symlinks to Drupal
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/drupal/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/drupal
Starting
Starting http service and adding to boot
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default
Config MySql
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql /etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'
Create the drupal database
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE drupal; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO "root"; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT
Config your drupal
Browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/drupal and Install Drupal completing the information as appropriate from the web browser.
Drupal Installation steps:
Note: After select each option, pres "Save and continue" button.
1 - Select an installation profile
- Standard ( Install with commonly used features pre-configured.)
- Minimal ( Start with only a few modules enabled.)
2 - Choose language
- English (built-in)
3 - Verify requirements
- (Nothing to do here if all is ok)
4 - Set up database Database type MySQL
- Database name drupal
- Database username root
- Database password your-mysql-password
- 5 Configure site
- SITE INFORMATION
- Site name
- Site e-mail address
- SITE MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT
- Username
- E-mail address
- Password
- Confirm password
- SERVER SETTINGS
- Default country
- Default time zone
- UPDATE NOTIFICATIONS
- Check for updates automatically
- Receive e-mail notifications
After click on "Save and continue" you will see Drupal installation complete
Congratulations, you installed Drupal!
Review the messages above before visiting your new site.
Review the messages above before visiting your new site. You have drupal cloud computing system working, to access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/drupal and enjoy!
