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CMS installation

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  • Drupal installation on opapa.
    • Created Drupal database: 
      mysql -u root -p
> CREATE DATABASE drupal;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO iandexter IDENTIFIED \\
   BY 'password';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> q
    • Decompressed Drupal package on /var/www/html/
    • Load database schema for Drupal: 
      cd /var/www/html/drupal-4.6.0
mysql -u iandexter -p drupal
    • Edited configuration in sites/default/settings.php: 
      $db_url = "mysql://iandexter:password@localhost/drupal";
$base_url = "http://cms.openacademy.ph/"
    • Created files directory: 
      sudo mkdir files
sudo chmod 664 files/
    • Edited httpd.conf: 
      <VirtualHost *>
  ServerName cms.openacademy.ph
  DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/drupal-4.6.0"
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "/var/www/html/drupal-4.6.0">
  Options Indexes
  AllowOverride All
</Directory>
    • Created cron task: 
      su - -c "crontab -e"
0 * * * * wget -O - q http://cms.openacademy.ph/cron.php
    • Opened installation in browser, created first account, and logged in.
  • Configuring Drupal:
    • Added roles:
      • Administrator
      • Editor
      • Author
    • Enabled modules.
  • Added DNS entry (CNAME) at domains.ph.

Written by Ian Dexter

April 25th, 2005 at 7:30 am

Posted in Work

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