Drupal
This guide shows you how to correctly install Drupal ( http://www.drupal.org ) into your Primary ibay on SME Server 8.
Setting up PHP to work correctly for Drupal
db accounts setprop Primary PHPBaseDir /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary:/tmp signal-event ibay-modify Primary
db configuration setprop php MemoryLimit 128M db configuration setprop php PostMaxSize 112M db configuration setprop php UploadMaxFilesize 96M expand-template /etc/php.ini sv t httpd-e-smith
Setting up the overrides for Apache
db accounts setprop Primary AllowOverride all db accounts setprop Primary FollowSymLinks enabled db accounts setprop Primary Indexes disabled signal-event ibay-modify Primary
Setting up ftp
In order to be able to ftp new themes and modules to your Drupal installation, you need to go to the server-manager panel in smeserver and:
- Create a user from the user panel and reset their password
- Enable ftp from local networks (I only allow administration of websites from the local network as a matter of security principle!)
- Give the user you just created the correct access permissions
For example, say you created a user called fred, then in order for fred to be able to ftp the required files via the Drupal interface, then you give them permission to do so like this:
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/
chown -R fred:www .
find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o= {} \;
Where fred is the user account you will use in Drupal to ftp the files (for example installing a new theme) and www is the account that smesever runs the web server under.
Lastly you have to modify the /etc/proftpd.conf file and comment out the "DefaultRoot" line ( I used the nano editor for this ):
cp /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/proftpd.conf/05DefaultRoot /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/proftpd.conf/ nano /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/proftpd.conf/05DefaultRoot
Comment out the DefaultRoot like:
#DefaultRoot /home/e-smith/files
Now save the file by going pressing the control and o keys together, then exit nano by pressing the control and the x keys together.
Then you need to expand the template:
expand-template /etc/proftpd.conf
To confim this:
config show ftp
Should return:
ftp=service LoginAccess=private TCPPort=21 access=private status=enabled
Finally, you are ready to follow the install instructions for Drupal
Now SME Server is all set up ready for you to follow the Drupal installation guide at: http://drupal.org/documentation/install
This has been tested on 8Beta6 and the 8Beta7 release.
As a footnote, I would recommend only enabling ftp via the server-manager panel just when you need it so that it is not turned on all the time!
