Coredump

Using the following modules in my Drupal CMS implementation:

• Archive
• Attachment
• BasicEvent
• Event
• Excerpt
• Feedback
• Filemanager
• Flexinode
• Forward
• Help
• Image
• Img_assist
• Menu
• Node
• Nodewords
• Notify
• Page
• Path
• Pathauto
• Print
• RSVP
• Search
• Service_links
• Similar
• Simplenews
• Sitemenu
• Taxonomy
• Taxonomy_access
• TinyMCE
• WatchdogNotify

Up next:

1. Themeing the front_page. I’ve created a PHP snippet to list and beautify recent news items.
2. Clean up the code. The HTML source is a mess! Will have to dig deeper into that.
3. Integrate with Gallery (there’s a Drupal module for this) and MediaWiki (if possible). I wil be needing these apps if I want to make my life easier.
4. Migrate from the old CMS. Now this will be a pain. Would have to do this manually as the tables are way, way different. Ugh!

• 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.