Drupal is an open source CMS used by millions of applications and webmasters. This attraction to this script is due to the many features it has including thousands of add-on modules, designs, etc.In this tutorial we will help you install the latest version of Drupal (currently 7.9) on a system running Ubuntu 11.10/11.04. Before starting, make sure your system has an Apache web server installed along with PHP and MySQL, you can find here a step-by-step tutorial explaining how to install LAMP on Ubuntu 11.10/11.04.
Drupal 7.9 Installation
1. Let's first install php5-gd required by Drupal with this command:
sudo apt-get install php5-gd
2. Download Drupal 7.9 and extract it to the /var/www/ folder with these commands:
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.9.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf drupal-7.9.tar.gz -C /var/www/
mv /var/www/drupal-7.9 /var/www/drupal
3. Assign ownership of Drupal files to the www-data user with this command:
sudo chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/drupal/
4. You can create a config file of Apache for Drupal with these commands:
sudo su
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
sed 's/www/www\/drupal/g' default > drupal
5. Enable now the Drupal website with these commands:
a2ensite drupal
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
6. Create now a MySQL database for drupal:
mysql -p
create database drupal;
7. Create a user with a password for this database with this command:
CREATE USER 'drupal'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '123';
Replace 123 with any password of your choice.
8. Grant this user all privileges with this command:
grant all privileges on drupal.* to drupal@localhost;
exit
9. You can now start the installation of Drupal via one of these two links:
http://127.0.0.1/drupal
or
http://localhost/drupal
10. Select Standard and click Save and continue:
11. English is selected by default, click Save and continue:
12. Submit now your MySQL details you have already created and click Save and continue:
13. Enter now your site information and click Save and continue:
14. Drupal is now installed on Ubuntu:
That's it!
