This document provides instructions for installing Drupal on an Ubuntu system using LAMP stack. It describes downloading and installing the LAMP components using apt-get, downloading and extracting Drupal into the /var/www/html folder, creating a MySQL database, configuring Drupal, and completing the installation process to set up the site. It then mentions visiting the site and using the dashboard to begin designing the site.

1. Install Drupal in Ubuntu
­ Tushar B. Kute

2. LAMP Server
● LAMP is an archetypal model of web service
solution stacks, named as an acronym of the
names of its original four open­source
components: the Linux operating system, the
Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational
database management system (RDBMS), and
the PHP programming language.

3. LAMP Server

4. Install LAMP Server
● sudo apt­get install lamp­server^
● It will install all the LAMP application at a
time by downloading from internet.
● Type 'localhost' in the web browser and check
the installation.

5. Download Drupal
Download from here

6. Download Drupal
● Copy the file in /var/www/html
– cd Downloads/
– sudo cp drupal­7.39.tar.gz /var/www/html
● Extract this file in the same folder
– cd /var/www/html
– sudo tar ­xvzf drupal­7.39.tar.gz
● It will create folder /drupal­7.39 in /var/www/html
– Rename it to drupal
– sudo mv drupal­7.39 drupal

7. Create MySQL database
● mysql ­u root ­p
● CREATE DATABASE UBUNTU;
● FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

8. Configure Drupal
● Start the apache server.
– sudo service apache2 start
● Type localhost or localhost/html/drupal in
the web browser.

9. Choose installation profile

10. Choose language

11. Verify Requirements
Errors

12. Create directory ­ files
● sudo mkdir
/var/www/html/drupal/sites/default/files
● It will create the file directory.
● Now refresh the page or press F5.

13. Verify requirements

14. Make the directory writable
● sudo chmod a+w
/var/www/html/drupal/sites/default/files
● It will make the /files directory writable.
● Refresh page of press F5.

15. Verify requirements

16. Copy file and make it writable
● sudo cp
/var/www/html/drupal/sites/default/default.setting
s.php
/var/www/html/drupal/sites/default/settings.php
● sudo chmod a+w
/var/www/html/drupal/sites/default/settings.php
● Refresh the page of press F5.

17. Database configuration

18. Installation process

19. Configure site

20. Configure site

21. Installation Completed

22. Visit the site

23. Go to dashboard to design

24. Start design...
HAPPY DESIGNING....

25. tushar@tusharkute.com
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