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This page captures notes on evaluating Drupal for Fedora Insight.
🔗 Drupal general information
Drupal has many positive aspects that make it an attractive option for Fedora Insight:
- Very large install base, ~1% of websites run it (by comparison, 8.5% run WordPress, and just over 1% run Joomla)
- Drupal community is large and vibrant
- Drupal community principles well aligned with Fedora (100% FOSS)
- Most modules of interest seem to be very well suited from licensing perspective
Possible risk considerations:
- Drupal 5 -> 6 migration is not painless, though Drupal 6.16 is current and in Fedora
- Drupal 6.16 is not in EPEL-5, but may be available in EPEL-6
- Drupal 7 due at an unknown date, possibly June 2010 but depends on bug stomping
- Drupal modules need packaging for Fedora/EPEL
- Modules may move at a fairly brisk pace of change, requiring attentive maintainers
🔗 Installing
- Install necessary packages:
su -c 'yum shell' > groupinstall 'Web Server' 'MySQL Database' > install drupal
- If you have not already done so, start the MySQL database server:
su -c '/sbin/service mysqld start'
- If you have not already done so, set up the MySQL database server's administrator account. First, provide a root password.
mysqladmin -u root password $PASSWORD
- Create a database for Drupal:
mysqladmin -u root -p create drupal
- Grant rights for a Drupal administrator on this database:
[root@publictest1 ~]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 5 Server version: 5.1.41 Source distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO drupaladmin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'DRUPAL_PASSWORD'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> QUIT; Bye
The drupaladmin account and the DRUPAL_PASSWORD you used above are the ones you will use in Drupal's installation process shortly.