How to install Drupal CMS 8.6.1 on MX Linux 17

How to install Drupal CMS 8.6.1 on MX Linux 17

Drupal is a popular open source Content Management System (CMS), which was released under GPL which is written in PHP language. It is used as a back-end framework for most of the websites and also used for knowledge management system. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Drupal on MX Linux 17.

Prerequisites

Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7) In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )

Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  
php7.0-common  php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Installation

Download a Drupal package using the following URL

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://www.drupal.org/download-latest/zip
--2018-09-12 03:48:19--  https://www.drupal.org/download-latest/zip
Resolving www.drupal.org (www.drupal.org)... 151.101.1.175, 151.101.65.175, 151.101.129.175, ...
Connecting to www.drupal.org (www.drupal.org)|151.101.1.175|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-8.6.1.zip [following]
--2018-09-12 03:48:21--  https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-8.6.1.zip
Resolving ftp.drupal.org (ftp.drupal.org)... 151.101.1.175, 151.101.65.175, 151.101.129.175, ...
Connecting to ftp.drupal.org (ftp.drupal.org)|151.101.1.175|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 26232990 (25M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘zip’

zip                      100%[==================================>]  25.02M  1023KB/s    in 25s     

2018-09-12 03:48:46 (1.01 MB/s) - ‘zip’ saved [26232990/26232990]

After Downloading extract the downloaded package

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip zip
Archive:  zip
   creating: drupal-8.6.1/
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/.csslintrc  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/.editorconfig  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/.eslintignore  
 extracting: drupal-8.6.1/.eslintrc.json  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/.gitattributes  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/.ht.router.php  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/.htaccess  
.
.
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/Renderer/RendererInterface.php  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/Source.php  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/StandaloneExtensionManager.php  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/Version.php  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/Writer.php  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/autoload.php  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/.htaccess  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/vendor/web.config  
  inflating: drupal-8.6.1/LICENSE.txt  

Move the extracted file into the HTML directory

root@linuxhelp:~# mv drupal-8.6.1 /var/www/

Navigate to the apache document root directory

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www/

Change ownership and permission of the as Drupal follows

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data drupal-8.6.1
root@linuxhelp:/var/www# chmod -R 775 drupal-8.6.1

Create a new virtual host configuration for accessing the Drupal

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal-8.6.1/

<Directory /var/www/drupal-8.6.1/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Enable site access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2ensite drupal.conf
Enabling site drupal.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Disable default access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

Enable rewrite module

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 restart

Restart the apache service to make the changes effect

root@linuxhelp:/var/www# service apache2 restart
[ ok ] Restarting Apache httpd web server: apache2.

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://<ipaddress or domain name

You will see the version of Drupal CMS

Choose the language for using Drupal as shown below

You will select the Installation profile of Drupal CMS

Configure the Database setup as follows Snap 5

You will see the installation of Drupal CMS

Configure the Site information and Admin user setup as follow

You will see the Homepage of Drupal as shown below

With this, the method to install Drupal CMS 8.6.1 on MX Linux 17 comes to an end.