Quick Guide to setting up a Drupal Website

1. Internet & Network Services Individual Project ***************************** Lamp Server & Drupal Quick Install Guide Anthony McKeown March 09

2. Introduction The first task for this project is the building and configuring of a Lamp server. A Lamp server is a common choice server that is used for hosting websites. Lamp stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. The second task is to install software on top of the Lamp server. My choice from the list provided is Drupal, a freely available Content Management System.

3. Goal My Goal is to provide a Social Networking website that will allow the users to log in and take part in Social networking activities such as creating blogs, participating in forums as well as creating web pages and stories.

4. Lamp Server Installation Linux Apache MySQL PHP

5. Linux The choice of Linux Operating system used was CentOS. CentOS stands for community enterprise operating system and is a freely available open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. CentOS is built by a number of developers who call themselves “The CentOS Project”. The version of CentOS used in this project was CentOS 5.2. We downloaded the software ISO file form the site www.centos.org , where you can find many installation guides, explanations, forums, blogs etc all related to the CentOS operating system. CentOS logo

6. Apache How to Install Apache yum install httpd # This command installs Apache from the net chkconfig httpd on # ensures apache starts on boot up Service apached start Service apached stop # used to start and stop the service

7. Checking that Apache works yum install elinks Browse to localhost 127.0.0.1 # you see this page : Install correct

8. MySQL How to Install MySQL o yum install mysql-server mysql # downloads MySQL from net Service mysql start ~ starts MySQL Service

9. PHP How to Install PHP yum install php # downloads PHP from net

10. Opening Port 80 on the Firewall It is necessary to open Port 80 on the server firewall to allow http traffic in and out of server. The following two lines need to be added to Iptables - A INPUT –s 192.168.0.0/24 -p tcp –m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables-save -c > /etc/iptables-save

11. Drupal Installation Drupal Logo

12. What is Drupal? Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including  Community web portals  Discussion sites  Corporate web sites  Intranet applications  Personal web sites or blogs  Aficionado sites  E-commerce applications  Resource directories Social Networking sites

13. How to Install Drupal wget http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.1.tar.gz # downloads file from Druapal.org tar –zxvpf Drupal-6.1.tar.gz # unzips the file into a file called Drupal-6.1 mv Drupal-6.1/* Drupal-6.1/.htaccess /var/www/html # moves unzipped file into html directory mysqladmin –u root –p create mydrupaldb # creates a database user and database for Drupal in MySQL Mysql –u root –p Mysql> GRANT, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, LOCK TABLES ON mydrupaldb TO ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; # Grants permissions to user and sets up security

14. Running Drupal Install Browse to the following address and follow the instructions to complete the installation http://192.168.0.10/install.php

15. Starting Drupal Browse to the following address http://192.168.0.10 You will be presented with a page similar to this

16. Configuring Drupal The administration of Drupal is split into the following two sections. Browse through each section to select the look of your site Section 1:  Content Management – setting up of the various content holders ie blogs page, forum page etc  Site Building – selecting themes, arranging menu’s  User Management – creating users and setting permissions  Site Configuration – setting up e-mail, site url, site name and logo  Reports – creating site reports

18. Section 2: Creating Content

19. Creating Users and Setting permissions Drupal provides a very easy to use tool for this process. You can setup the user with individual permissions such as the administrator, or you can create a user group and set permissions to the group. I created a new user group, set permissions and then added a new user.

20. MY SITE www.mydrupal.com

21. THE END Anthony McKeown Mar 09