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.
Install lighttpd, PHP and MySql
For installing the additional packages first activate community packages:
vi /etc/apk/repositories
Uncomment the following:
http://pkg.example.com/alpine/v3.11/community
Update the packagelist:
apk update
Install the additional packages:
apk add lighttpd php7-common php7-session php7-iconv php7-json php7-gd php7-curl php7-xml php7-mysqli php7-imap php7-cgi fcgi php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-soap php7-xmlrpc php7-posix php7-mcrypt php7-gettext php7-ldap php7-ctype php7-dom php7-simplexml
Configure Lighttpd
Edit lighttpd.conf
vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Uncomment line:
include "mod_fastcgi.conf"
Start lighttpd service and add to needed runlevel
rc-service 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
Create a folder named webapps
mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/
Download the source code archive
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.19.tar.gz
Unpack the archive and delete the tarball afterwards
tar zxvf drupal-7.19.tar.gz rm drupal-7.19.tar.gz
Change the folder name
mv drupal-7.19 drupal
Change the folder permissions
chown -R lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/
Creating settings file
cp /usr/share/webapps/drupal/sites/default/default.settings.php /usr/share/webapps/drupal/sites/default/settings.php
Create a symlink to the drupal folder
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!