The Panix Help System -- Setting up Drupal

Installing Drupal 7 on Panix

Following these instructions as written will install Drupal 7 in a subdirectory of your primary web space called 'drupal'. Substitute your user name for yourusername, and, where appropriate, your domain name for yourdomainname, throughout.

• If your blog is under the www.panix.com domain, the web address for your blog will be:: http://www.panix.com/~yourusername/drupal/
• If you are using your own domain, the web address for your blog will be: http://yourdomainname/drupal/

Drupal 7 supports SQLite, so you do not have to use MySQL. If you wish to use MySQL, then request a MySQL database. (If you already have a MySQL database at Panix, you can use it for Drupal, too.)

Log into your Panix shell account.
Change directories into your web space:
• Personal pages and Cheap-web customers:
cd public_html
• Standard, and other web customers:
cd corp-web/yourdomainname
LOCATE LATEST VERSION at http://drupal.org/project/drupal
Fetch Drupal 7:
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.n.tar.gz where n is the latest recommended release.
Unpack it:
tar -xzvf drupal-7.n.tar.gz
Remove the zip file:
rm drupal-7.n.tar.gz
Rename the new directory:
mv drupal-7.n drupal
Use the above command if you are installing Drupal for the first time, i.e., you do not have a drupal subdirectory already. If you do already have a drupal directory, you can either rename it, or use a different name for this one (remembering to use the same alternate name in the instructions below!)
Initialize your settings;
cp drupal/sites/default/default.settings.php drupal/sites/default/settings.php
Create your uploads directory:
mkdir drupal/sites/default/files
Allow Drupal to change your settings:
chmod -R o+w drupal/sites/default/
Let the webserver see everything it needs to see: chmod o+r drupal/.htaccess
chmod o+r drupal/index.php
chmod o+r drupal/install.php
chmod -R o+r drupal/modules
chmod -R o+r drupal/themes
chmod -R o+r drupal/misc
Edit the .htaccess file in your new drupal directory, appending the following 2 lines:
emacs drupal/.htaccess
AddHandler php-handler .php
• Customers who don't use their own domain:
Action php-handler http://www.panix.com/~yourusername/pcgi-bin/php-handler.cgi
• Customers using their own domain:
Action php-handler http://yourdomainname/pcgi-bin/php-handler.cgi
Use ctl-x ctl-c to save and exit emacs.
If you do not already have one, create a pcgi-bin directory:
mkdir pcgi-bin
Create a php-handler script in your pcgi-bin directory:
emacs pcgi-bin/php-handler.cgi
with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh

cd `dirname ${PATH_TRANSLATED}`
exec php

Use ctl-x ctl-c to save and exit emacs.
Give yourself permission to execute your php-handler script:
chmod u+x pcgi-bin/php-handler.cgi
In your web browser, visit

• Customers using the www.panix.com domain:

http://www.panix.com/~yourusername/drupal/

• Customers using your own domain:

http://yourdomainname/drupal/

You will be re-directed to /drupal/install.php to choose your profile (standard or minimal).
On the next page [ /drupal/install.php?profile=standard|minimal ], choose your language.
We have not experimented with installing Drupal in different languages. Please contact support if you need assistance doing so.
On the next page [ /drupal/install.php?profile=standard|minimal&locale=en ], choose your database type, either MySQL or SQLite.

For MySQL

enter these values:

Database name: yourusername

Database username: yourusername

Database password: (insert password here)

Then click Advanced options and enter

Database host:mysql2

Database port:(leave blank)

Table prefix: drupal_

For SQLite

accept the default filename

enter a table prefix, if desired

then click the "Save and continue" button.
On the next page [ /drupal/install.php?profile=standard|minimal&locale=en ], configure your site with its title, e-mail address, an administrator username, password & e-mail address, and server settings (time zone, clean URLs, update notifications). Click the "Save and continue" button.
Begin editing your blog:

• Customers using the www.panix.com domain

http://www.panix.com/~yourusername/drupal/wp-admin/

• Customers using their own domain

http://yourdomainname/drupal/wp-admin/
If you need additional help with this software, you can find it online on its primary web site, http://drupal.org/