Best Practices for Beginners

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Best Practices for Beginners Creating your own Drupal environment from command line to website

This Session Build our own dev server (Ubuntu, OS X, Windows) Learn the basic Unix commands Download and install Drupal Conﬁgure Drupal site Best practices (discussion?)

Developing and Hosting Servers Develop on your computer Local MySQL / Speed Pay someone else $$$ = Speed

Hosted Servers Shared hosting (Dreamhost, GoDaddy, Ed’s House of Janky Jervers) $10+ Virtual Machine Slice (SliceHost, DreamhostPS) $20+ Amazon Elastic Cloud (GetPantheon.com) $70+ Leased Server (Rackspace) $300+ Your own server farm $$$

Command Line Commands ssh (Secure Shell) Sudo cd (Change Directory) cp (Copy) mv (Move) tar (Compress and Uncompress tar.gz) rm (Remove) wget (Web Get)

SSH Secure Shell How we connect to a Unix ssh -l root 192.168.1.11 based or like server modiﬁer -l changes user Command Modifier Username Server Last Login: Wed Jan 6 09:59:11 on ttys000 drupal-command:~ mike$ ssh -l root 192.168.1.11

SUDO Super User Do Allows you to do a command as the superuser or root Not available on shared servers Much better than logging in as root sudo rm important.txt Prior to command

CD Change Directory How we move around the server cd ../ modiﬁer / starts at root directory modiﬁer ../ moves down a directory Command Modifier Last Login: Wed Jan 6 09:59:11 on ttys000 drupal-command:~ mike$ cd /var/pressflow-6/sites

CP Copy How we copy a ﬁle or directory Modiﬁer -R recursively copies a directory cp settings.doc settings.old Command Name New_Name

MV Move How we move a ﬁle or directory mv pressflow-6.1.5.4 pressflow-6 Command Directory New_Directory

TAR Turns a group of ﬁles into an archive Unarchive tar -xvf tar -xvf pressflow-6.14.tar.gz Archive tar -pczf tar -pczf site.tar.gz /sites/mysite.com Command Modifier archive Directory

RM Remove How we delete a ﬁle or directory Modiﬁer -R recursively removes directories rm -R /Everything/I/Ever/Made Command Modifier file or path to file

WGET Web Get How we download ﬁles from other web servers sudo wget http://launchpad.net/pressflow/6.x/ 6.15.66/+download/pressflow-6.15.66.tar.gz Command Long Long Url

Lets Build A Server OS X Linux (Ubuntu Server) Windows

Good Use for Older Hardware

We Will Assume You have your own box (or Unix based pc/laptop You can be root You can do what you want You HAVE A BACKUP!

Virtual Machines Why mess with your machine? Options VMWare VirtualBox Parallels

Drupal Stack lamp: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP xamp: OS X, Apache, MySQL, PHP wamp: Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP

Acquia Installer + + damp: Drupal, Apache, MySQL, PHP + Point, Click... Drupal

Install Acquia Mac Users must be the initial root account (not a User who has been given admin privileges)

Best Practices for Users Deﬁne User Groups Min 3 Unauthenticated Authenticated Administrators

Set Permissions for groups Slowly add permissions to lower User Groups

Where Is It Stored? Drupal root Sites /all directory Your sites directory

Root Drupal Directory /sites is the only directory we work in

/sites Directory /all available to all sites in the install /default your initial site, starting point, location if not doing drupal multi-site install Folder for each other site on the server folder name must match dns name

/sites/default This is where your site is Download modules you are testing to /modules Download themes you are working with to /themes If your site moves to another server all you need is this folder and the database

Pack Up a Site For a New Server tar -pcvf default.tar.gz default

Install a Module Copy the link from drupal.org Paste directly into sudo wget

Install a Theme Same procedure, different directory

Create Your Own Content Types Just because there is a module does not mean you should use it CCK

For the Future Learn Views Learn Panels