Drupal is a free modular content management system written in PHP.
Required PHP Extension
- MySQL
$ sudo apt-get install php5-mysql - GD Library
$ sudo apt-get install php5-gd
Installation
Download the latest Drupal release from http://drupal.org.
$ wget http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.2.tar.gz
Extracting the .tar.gz file will create a new directory drupal-6.2 which contains all the Drupal files and directories.
$ tar -zxvf drupal-6.2.tar.gz
Move all the files inside the directory into a directory within your web server’s document root or your public HTML directory.
$ mv drupal-6.2/* /var/www/drupal
Create a database for drupal. For MySQL:
mysql> create database databasename
mysql> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER ON databasename.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Make sure that you have write permission on the directory ./sites/default/
$ chmod 777 ./sites/default
Run the install script by pointing your browser to the base url of your website (e.g http://www.vincentkong.com), which will bring you through an installation wizard to setup Drupal.
Choose language:
Database configuration:
Configure site:
After the installation has been completed the write permission should be removed from the .sites/default directory.
$ chmod 755 .sites/default
For more information refer to the Getting Started guide for Drupal.
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