Drupal Install

INSTALLATION OF DRUPAL 8.2.3 ON UBUNTU 16.10

INTRODUCTION

Laptop on which installation was performed:HP Windows 10.
To be able to use Ubuntu ,I used a virtualisation software.It is the Virtual Box which has enabled me to install Linux on Windows.


            Download Virtual box:https://www.virtualbox.org/


Ubuntu is a Linux distribution which is a free and open source software.


            Download Ubuntu 16.10:https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

To be able to have a successful Drupal Installation, I have followed these four steps as shown below:

STEP 1:INSTALL LAMP(LINUX,APACHE,MYSQL,PHP)

Ubuntu must first be updated and the repositories must be in sync.Tasksel is a tool that allows us to install bundles of packages via a single command. In this case,instead of installing Apache,Mysql and Php individually, I use lamp-server via taskel to do the complete installation.


CODE:

• sudo apt-get update

• sudo apt-get install tasksel

• sudo tasksel install lamp-server
  

STEP 2:GRABBING DRUPAL FROM DRUPAL.ORG

• First of all,download drupal 8.2.3 from
  

         https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-8.2.3.tar.gz

         I choose drupal 8.2.3,because it is the lastest supported release of Drupal.

• Use of sudo tar -xvzf drupal-8.2.3.tar.gz to extract file.
  

          I have used tar ; as the archive is available in compress format.
         
         Therefore, the use of tar can uncompress it.

• copy file using :sudo rsync -avP drupal-8.2.3/var/www/html

      NOTE:

      I choose rsync, because rsync does differentate file transfer and it is smarter than cp.

• Result of rsync

• SET PROPER PERMISSION FOR DRUPAL FOLDER

         We must change the permissions so that the server can read all the files, as it 
         shares the same user ID as the files .

  
         CODE:

         sudo chown -Rv www-data:www-data/var/www/html

        

STEP 3:CREATING DATABASE AND USER FOR DRUPAL

 CODE:

• CREATE DATABASE  drupaldatabase

• grant all privileges on drupaldatabse.* to drupaluser@localhost identified by 'T6MP3PLAYER'

THEN DO THE FOLLOWING TO RELOAD MYSQL PERMISSIONS ON NEW DATABASE.    

    

• flush privileges

• exit

STEP 4:INSTALL DRUPAL 8.2.3

Open http url for the local apache web session.In my case, it is http://127.0.0.1/drupal-8.2.3/

CHOOSING LANGUAGE

SELECTING AN INSTALLATION PROFILE

REQUIREMENTS REVIEW

NOTE:

As you can see in the Requirement review above, there is a warning notification about clean URLs.A clean URLs is a way of having presentable  URLs,instead of long & hard to remember URLs.

CODE:

     

     sudo a2enmod rewrite

LOADING MOD REWRITE

The file to edit is: 

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

CODE:

     sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

SEARCHING FOR /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

RESULT FOR
SEARCHING FOR /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf

Then,copy this section below.

      <Directory /var/www/html>

      AllowOverride All

   </Directory>

After copied the section,search  for DocumentRoot /var/www/html.

Then,paste it  below DocumentRoot /var/www/html as show below:

PASTING APACHE  CONFIGURATION

Then do control w to save.

DATABASE CONFIGURATION

INSTALLING DRUPAL

INSTALLATION OF DRUPAL HAS BEEN COMPLETED.

With a view to contribute code to Drupal ; I have installed Drupal on Ubuntu with all the steps documented in the set of instructions and in bullet points. In the review, i have some difficulty in setting clean URLs  and this issue has been resolved hence I do not have any issue to report during the installation process anymore.

Thank you for this opportunity.