Installing Drupal on RimuHosting.com

Thu, 11/15/2007 - 22:46 — siteadmin

Here is how to install Drupal on a CentOS 5.4 Linux installation, hosted on http://RimuHosting.com


rm -f /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Toronto /etc/localtime
apt-get update -y ; apt-get upgrade

Install MySQL 5.0


MYROOTPW=xxxxxx
apt-get -y install mysql mysql-server
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
mysqladmin -u root password $MYROOTPW

Install Apache2 & postfix
You may have to add this line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables BEFORE any reject lines (e.g. after the port 22 ACCEPT)


-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
service iptables restart #and then restart 
apt-get -y install httpd postfix
chkconfig --level 35 postfix on
/etc/init.d/postfix start
chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
/etc/init.d/httpd start
echo "<html><head><title>Server</title></head><body><h1>Name of Server</h1></body></html>" > /var/www/html/index.html

change AllowOverride to All in first two places to enable .htaccess


vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Visit http://severname.com to check apache is working

Install PHP5
apt-get -y install phpchange memory_limit = 40M, post_max_size = 40M, upload_max_filesize = 20M
date.timezone = America/Toronto
vi /etc/php.ini /etc/init.d/httpd restart echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/testphp.phpAnd try visiting servername.com/testphp.php

Add mysql support for php


apt-get -y install php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc mod_auth_mysql mysql-server php-mbstring
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Install phpMyAdmin (for 32bit use i386 instead of x86_64)


ARCH=i386 #or x86_64
VER=0.5.1-1
SITE=http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release
wget $SITE/rpmforge-release-$VER.el5.rf.$ARCH.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-$VER.el5.rf.$ARCH.rpm
yum install phpmyadmin

Configuration so that phpMyAdmin allows connections not just from localhost by commenting out the block <Directory "/usr/share/phpmyadmin">


vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

Change the authentication in phpMyAdmin from cookie to http by editing the following line:


vi /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Or you can install phpmyadmin from a rimu script:


wget "http://proj.ri.mu/installphpmyadmin.sh"
bash installphpmyadmin.sh

webmin is already installed at https://servername.com:10000 but log in and apply any upgrades.
You will need to un-comment the NameVirtualHost *:80 line:
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Create Drupal database user

DRUSR=drupalusername
DRPW=mylongdrupalpassword
echo "GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON *.* TO '$DRUSR'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$DRPW';" | mysql -u root --password=$MYROOTPW

Download and install Drupal following the instructions here: http://drup.org/acquia-drupal-svn

Use webmin to create more virtual servers, but the first virtual server created will become the default, so make it point to /var/www/html with a servername of something like sv.mysite.org
See http://rimuhosting.com/howto/virtualhosting.jsp for more details

Install APC (optional)

yum -y install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel
yum -y install php-pecl-apc
#pecl install apc 
#answer yes to question
echo "extension=apc.so" > /etc/php.d/apc.ini
#optionally modify cache size: apc.shm_size="64"
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
cp /usr/share/pear/apc.php /var/www/html # and visit apc.php to test it is working
cp /usr/share/php/apc.php /var/www/html # it may be here instead
ln -sfn `find /usr -name "apc.php"` /var/www/html/ # or use more of a brute force method