Focus on setting up your own Drupal website. starting with an empty linux server focusing on using ssh and the command line to communicate with the server. Students will learn to use the few basic commands required to setup a Drupal site (ssh, wget, tar, cp, mv, cd and rm) without getting to complicated. This session will deviate from the norm and setup Drupal preparing a foundation for websites that may need to scale up. We will also look at some best practices not obvious to beginners such as using the all directory and setting up a multisite installation and of course share a list of favorite plugins for starting out.

1. Best Practices for Beginners
Creating your own Drupal environment from command line to website

2. This Session
Build our own dev server (Ubuntu, OS X, Windows)
Learn the basic Unix commands
Download and install Drupal
Configure Drupal site
Best practices (discussion?)

3. Developing and Hosting Servers
Develop on your computer
Local MySQL / Speed
Pay someone else
$$$ = Speed

4. Hosted Servers
Shared hosting (Dreamhost, GoDaddy, Ed’s House of Janky Jervers) $10+
Virtual Machine Slice (SliceHost, DreamhostPS) $20+
Amazon Elastic Cloud (GetPantheon.com) $70+
Leased Server (Rackspace) $300+
Your own server farm $$$

5. Command Line Commands
ssh (Secure Shell)
Sudo
cd (Change Directory)
cp (Copy)
mv (Move)
tar (Compress and Uncompress
tar.gz)
rm (Remove)
wget (Web Get)

6. SSH Secure Shell
How we connect to a Unix ssh -l root 192.168.1.11
based or like server
modifier -l changes user
Command Modifier Username Server
Last Login: Wed Jan 6 09:59:11 on ttys000
drupal-command:~ mike$ ssh -l root 192.168.1.11

7. SUDO Super User Do
Allows you to do a command as the superuser
or root
Not available on shared servers
Much better than logging in as root
sudo rm important.txt
Prior to command

8. CD Change Directory
How we move around the server cd ../
modifier / starts at root directory
modifier ../ moves down a directory
Command Modifier
Last Login: Wed Jan 6 09:59:11 on ttys000
drupal-command:~ mike$ cd /var/pressflow-6/sites

9. CP Copy
How we copy a file or directory
Modifier -R recursively copies a directory
cp settings.doc settings.old
Command Name New_Name

10. MV Move
How we move a file or directory
mv pressflow-6.1.5.4 pressflow-6
Command Directory New_Directory

11. TAR
Turns a group of files into an archive
Unarchive tar -xvf
tar -xvf pressflow-6.14.tar.gz
Archive tar -pczf
tar -pczf site.tar.gz /sites/mysite.com
Command Modifier archive Directory

12. RM Remove
How we delete a file or directory
Modifier -R recursively removes directories
rm -R /Everything/I/Ever/Made
Command Modifier file or path to file

13. WGET Web Get
How we download files from other web servers
sudo wget http://launchpad.net/pressflow/6.x/
6.15.66/+download/pressflow-6.15.66.tar.gz
Command Long Long Url

14. Lets Build A Server
OS X
Linux (Ubuntu Server)
Windows

15. Good Use for Older Hardware

16. We Will Assume
You have your own box (or Unix
based pc/laptop
You can be root
You can do what you want
You HAVE A BACKUP!

17. Virtual Machines
Why mess with your machine?
Options
VMWare
VirtualBox
Parallels

18. Drupal Stack
lamp: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
xamp: OS X, Apache, MySQL, PHP
wamp: Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP

19. Acquia Installer +
+
damp: Drupal, Apache, MySQL, PHP
+
Point, Click... Drupal

20. Install Acquia
Mac Users must be the initial
root account (not a User who
has been given admin privileges)

28. Best Practices for Users
Define User Groups Min 3
Unauthenticated
Authenticated
Administrators

29. Set Permissions for groups
Slowly add permissions to lower User Groups

30. Where Is It Stored?
Drupal root
Sites /all directory
Your sites directory

31. Root Drupal Directory
/sites is the only directory we work in

32. /sites Directory
/all available to all sites in the install
/default your initial site, starting point,
location if not doing drupal multi-site
install
Folder for each other site on the server
folder name must match dns name

33. /sites/default
This is where your site is
Download modules you are testing
to /modules
Download themes you are working
with to /themes
If your site moves to another server all
you need is this folder and the
database

34. Pack Up a Site For a New Server
tar -pcvf default.tar.gz default

35. Install a Module
Copy the link from drupal.org
Paste directly into sudo wget

36. Install a Theme
Same procedure, different
directory

37. Create Your Own Content Types
Just because there is a module does not
mean you should use it
CCK

38. For the Future
Learn Views
Learn Panels