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Welcome back to Introduction to Drupal. We went ahead and installed Drupal on a shared hosting environment. This is a production server that I own. It's hosted by HostMonster and I showed you how to go ahead and create the MySQL database using the cPanel utility, which comes with my host and we went ahead and created that MySQL database using the databases MySQL utility tool and actually that brings up, if you look at the phpMyAdmin now for our database, you'll notice that the Drupal 6 Test database is now populated with data. That was so, so it was a successful install. And then what we did is we went ahead and installed using the File Manager. We uploaded the extraction folder, the tar.gz for Drupal 69 site and we extracted it and we went ahead and copied our default settings file, renamed it Settings.php, tweaked the permissions on it and then we went ahead and ran our Drupal installer. Now, remember; the first thing you need to do once you have your site installed correctly is go to Administer and Run Status Report. This'll tell you how everything's looking and whether you need to tweak anything. So I'm going to go ahead and Run Status Report on my site and this is a Drupal 69 site so it should be up to date. OK, there it goes. It looks good. We can run our cron. Let's go ahead and do that. And everything actually looks good. The configuration file is protected actually. It looks like it rewrote the permissions on that and you can check that by going to Settings.php, Change Permissions. So it looks like it does that automatically on the shared server environment. Now it's not letting me change the permissions on that. OK, well, rest assured that it looks like it's actually changed. Let's go back here and try that again. So we ran our status report. Everything looks good there and we'll just check that one more time. Public HTML. There's our site. Sites, Default, let's change permissions on that. Yeah, so it's actually set to, looks like it's set to not be writable. So we're good to go. As long as our status report is, we'll run that cron one more time, showing everything's good. OK. And our status report shows us the PHP versions. So at this point the site is installed correctly and you can start going ahead and configuring it. You can go to your Administer section and Clean URLs should be enabled. You can check on that. They are. You can go and set up your input format. We'll make that full HTML for the site, set our default format. Good. Go back to Site Configuration. Let's see what else here. We can go to our Site Building Modules list and turn on some of our modules like Blog and Book and Contacts. Default Modules form, a lot of this is just a review; Path, PHP Filter, Poll, Search and Upload. Those are all our core modules we're going to need. We'll save our configuration. Good. And we will go to our User Management section and our User Settings and allow only site administrators to create new user accounts for the moment while we're in development. Save our configuration. So we're ready to go. So that install process was successful. We have a brand-new Drupal site here, logged in as Admin and you can go ahead and, go ahead and implement all the things on your brand-new Drupal site that you learned in this tutorial series. Again, this was to show you how to install Drupal. We installed Drupal 69 on a shared host environment. I'm using Host Monster and we used our cPanel utility tool to do this as well as the MySQL Database utility and the File Manager. So three different tools; cPanel, File Manager and MySQL utility and we have a brand-new Drupal site installed.
| Course: | Introduction to Drupal 6 |
| Author: | Trevor James |
| SKU: | 33992 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-43-2 |
| Release Date: | 2009-05-01 |
| Duration: | 11.5 hrs / 114 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |