Configure Drupal in Ubuntu 8.04

Hi all,

I configured Drupal under Linux 8.04, if you want to configure please follow the below steps:



I recently installed Drupal on my Ubuntu 8.0.4 desktop. Below are my step-by-step instructions.

1. Install Apache HTTP Server

sudo apt-get install apache2


2. Install MySQL Database Server
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.0


3. Install PHP5 and Apache PHP5 module
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5


4. Install phpMyAdmin (Optional)
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin


5. Install MySQL Administrator (Optional)
sudo apt-get install mysql-admin


6. Open php.ini
gksudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini


7. Add the following line in the php.ini
extension=mysql.so


8. Open apache2.conf
gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf


9.Add the following line of code inside apache2.conf to setup phpmyadmin under Apache
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf


10. Now restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart


11. Go To http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Login using your MySQL user name and password that you have set when installing MySQL server.Create a database for drupal. In my case I created a database named “drupaldb”.

12. Install GD module for php5
sudo apt-get install php5-gd


13. Download the latest stable Drupal from here.

http://drupal.org/

In my case I am using drupal-6.9. Change to your default download directory.


14. Extract the drupal-6.9.tar.gz to your default web directory.

sudo tar -xvf drupal-6.9.tar.gz -C /var/www/


15. Change to drupal sites default directory
cd /var/www/drupal-6.9/sites/default


16. Make a copy of default.settings.php file as settings.php
sudo cp default.settings.php settings.php


17. Make the settings.php as writable
sudo chmod a+w settings.php


18. Make the sites/default directory as writable
sudo chmod a+w /var/www/drupal-6.9/sites/default


19. Now restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart.


20. Go to http://127.0.0.1/drupal-6.9/ . You will see drupal install page.



if problem is there you can follow this link also:


http://www.codelathe.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/22/install-apache-php-mysql-drupal-on-ubuntu-804hardy/





Note: After installing Drupal, remove the write permissions from settings.php file to avoid security risks.

sudo chmod a-w /var/www/drupal-6.9/sites/default/settings.php