How to Install Drupal 7 on Linux

Few Days ago Drupal 7 was released !
Because of that I decided to make a tutorial about installing and configuring it on a Linux machine
With Apache server installed on it

After Installing Apache server: Click here
You’ll have to be sure if you have php5 and some other things… so install them..

$ sudo apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-gd libapache2-mod-php5

after that restart your apache server:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now go ahead and type:

$ sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and enter this line to the end so that Drupal will function properly with apache and php (save it):

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Now to test php nad see all other detalis type:

$ sudo gedit /var/www/testphp.php

and enter this then save :

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Restart your server:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

and go ahead to your browser and test PHP !

http://localhost/testphp.php

OK done with this so now we have to :

Configure Mysql to work with Drupal

First, you’ll need to run MySQL’s install script:

$ sudo mysql_install_db

And then type this command , to secure MySQL. And follow the default prompts to remove the testing database in MySQL:

$ sudo mysql_secure_installation

when that is complete log in to mysql:

mysql -u root -p

Create Database : (I used drupal as the database name)

 $ CREATE DATABASE drupal;

Create User: (same here, drupaluser as the user name)

$ CREATE USER drupaluser@localhost;

Create Password for your new User:

$ SET PASSWORD FOR drupaluser@localhost= PASSWORD('typepasswordhere');

Note : leave quotation marks !

Now that you’ve got the database name and user, go ahead and :
Grant all permissions to the user :

$ GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO drupaluser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Note: Leave the quotation marks at the password !

Finally lets start with Drupal

Get the latest package here : http://drupal.org/project/drupal

Copy the file to /var/www/
and unpack it by typing :

$ sudo tar -xvzf drupal-7.7.tar.gz

then change directory to drupal-7.7

$ cd drupal-7.7

and lets change some permissions :

$ sudo chmod a+w sites/default
$ cd sites/default

create a copy of default.settings.php to settings.php

$ cp default.settings.php settings.php

Change permission:

$ sudo chmod a+w settings.php

Create a directory with the name (files):

$ sudo mkdir files

again change permission

$ sudo chmod a+w files

All done !
Open up browser and go to :
http://localhost/drupal-7.7
it will open up a Drupal page !
now go ahead and fill up the boxes… Thats it.

Note : After finishing all Drupal installation, change permissions to those files above [“default” folder  | “settings.php” file  |  “files” folder ]  to prevent unwanted users working on them.. you do it with go-w permission:
exc.

$ sudo chmod go-w settings.php

As about files directory/folder change its permissions to 757:

$ sudo chmod 757 files

Thank you, hope it helps 🙂