[Drupal] How to install Drupal 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 machine
Installing Drupal 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 machine is pretty simple. Here is a quick and easy way to setup a Drupal 7 fresh installation. All those new Drupal developers who would want to do a local Drupal setup, please read on.
Prerequisites: Development environment
- PHP 5
- MySQL
- Apache
Step 1: Download Drupal 7
- Download the newest stable version of Drupal 7 to your local machine (Download)
- Decompress the file
- Copy the files and folders to your ‘/home/user/public_html/’ directory
OR
Run these commands in your terminal:
$cd /home/user/public_html/
$drush dl drupal
$mv /home/user/public_html/drupal-7.28 /home/user/public_html/drupal7
Step 2: Create a new MySQL database
- Create a new MySQL database and database user using phpmyadmin.
OR
Create database through your terminal:
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE db_drupal7;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON db_drupal7.* TO 'new-db-user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new-db-password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit
Step 3: Create a new virtual host directive in Apache.
Create a new Apache configuration file ‘drupal7.conf'
$vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal7.conf
$ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal7.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/drupal7.conf
then, add the following to drupal7.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin
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DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html/drupal7 ServerName drupal7.local ServerAlias
www.drupal7.local
<Directory /home/user/public_html/drupal7/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/drupal7-local.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/drupal7-local.com-access_log common </VirtualHost>
Then, Add to hosts file
$sudo gedit /etc/hosts
Add,
127.0.0.1 drupal7.local
Step 4: Restart the Apache web server
$sudo service apache2 restart
Step 5: Set 'files' folder permission
$chmod a+w sites/default/files -R
Step 6: Install Drupal 7
Open your web browser. Now, type URL as http://drupal7.local
and follow the Drupal instructions and you're done.