Install LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) & Drupal

PART 0 - DOWNLOAD DRUPAL

1. Download the latest Drupal from here.

PART 1 - INSTALLING & CONFIGURE LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)

STEP 1 - Installing APACHE

1. Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install apache2

2. To make sure that Apache is installed open a web browser and type:

http://localhost

3. You should see something like this:

STEP 2 - Installing PHP

1. Again open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

2. Now you must restart Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3. To ensure that there are no issues with PHP run:

sudo gedit /var/www/testphp.php

4. A file called testphp.php will open.
5. Copy and paste the following into the testphp.php
6. Save the file and exit
7. Now open a web browser and type:

http://localhost/testphp.php

8. If it works then PHP is installed!

STEP 3 - Installing MySQL

1. Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

2. The above command will install MySQL
3. Now comes the tricky part!
4. Log in MySQL by typing:

mysql -u root -p

5. Now you need to set a password (Change yourpassword with the password you want. Do not remove ' '. Type your password between ' '.)

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('yourpassword');

6. For example:

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('12345');

7. The next step is installing phpMyAdmin (A tool for editing your databases)

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin

8. Now you must edit the php.ini file in order to get PHP to work with MySQL

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

9. Uncomment the following line by removing the semicolon (;)

;extension=mysql.so

10. For example:

extension=mysql.so

11. Finally restart Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

That's it your web server is up and running!

PART 2 - DRUPAL

1. Open a terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

2. apache2.conf will open
3. In order for Drupal to functioning properly with Apache and PHP type the following at the the end of the file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php.html

4. Click Save
5. Now it's time to create a Database
6. Type the following and enter your password:

mysql -u root -p

7. To create a Database type:

//Use whatever name you like instead of drupal
CREATE DATABASE drupal;

8. Now you need to create a user

CREATE USER yourname@localhost;

9. Finally define a password for the newly created user

SET PASSWORD FOR yourname@localhost = PASSWORD('yourpassword');

10. Now you need to grand permissions for the user

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO yourname@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword'

11. Go to the location that your Drupal was downloaded in PART 0 and unpack it
12. Then copy the unpacked Drupal folder to /var/www/

cp /home/user/Downloads/drupal-7.21 /var/www/

13. Now head to /var/www/ and change directory to drupal

cd drupal-7.21

14. Change the permissions

sudo chmod a+w sites/default

cd sites/default

15. Copy default.settings.php to settings.php

cp default.settings.php settings.php

16. Change the permissions

sudo chmod a+w settings.php

17. Finally create a directory named files

sudo mkdir files

18. and change permissions

sudo chmod a+w files

19. That's it!
20. Now open a web browser and type:

http://localhost/drupal-7.21

21. Finally follow the on screen Drupal instructions to install Drupal