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Introduction to Drupal & the Course / Technology & System Requirements pt. 1

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Welcome back to Introduction to Drupal. Before we start running with our Drupal site and doing all sorts of cool things with core and contributed modules and setting up our Drupal configuration, I want to talk a little bit about the technology stack, quote unquote stack, behind the Drupal scenes here, behind our Drupal site and what's required to run Drupal. It's a very common question. I see it posted to Drupal.org all the time. What do I need to run my site? How can I start using Drupal? You know, is it a one-click install? What type of server do I need? Can I run it on Windows? What are the other requirements? So let's look at this and let's keep it simple. It's actually not very complex but there are lots of complexities once you start using it in certain environments. So what I'm going to talk about is I'm going to kind of go at this from my experience and how I've used Drupal and hopefully that will help you to pave your path forward with this and not get too bogged down. It's not, you don't necessarily need to get too bogged down with this but it's good to have the requirements up front. So before you even start, you need to think about what you'll run your Drupal site on. In order to run Drupal you do need a few things. You need an Apache-based web server. Apache is, if you look it up on Google, it is a powerful web server. This is the main Apache.org site. So, you know, you can come here and read all about Apache and the different projects, you know, that Apache runs. It's open source, pretty much open-source community. So you need an Apache web server. Now, you can run Apache web servers, generally you run them on Linux servers. Linux, basically Linux and actually the Mac OS as well. They'll ship with Apache usually installed right on the system. I'm pretty sure with Mac. You may have to actually install Apache on Mac but in any event, Mac's, the Mac OS will support it. So Linux or the Mac OS is good for that. And there's many different flavors of Linux out there. You can do a search for Linux and read all about Linux at the main Linux home page as well. So here's the Linux online. Little penguin, kind of the universal symbol for Linux. A couple of different versions of Linux I've run Drupal on. One is Red Hat, which is the kind of lead open-source Linux community out there. I've also run Drupal on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a really nice Linux flavor and you can actually just go and download Ubuntu right here on the Ubuntu site which, by the way, Ubuntu.com is designed with Drupal. I think they even say that down here somewhere. Well, maybe not. But it is the Drupal site and you can come here and you can actually download Ubuntu and you can install Ubuntu right on your Desktop if you want instead of running Windows or whatever you run. You can run Ubuntu Linux. So you need a Linux operating system. Now, Drupal does run on Windows, but the focus of my tutorials are not going to be a Windows, they're going to be Windows-based in that I'm going to run everything off of a Windows machine on a local host environment but running it on Windows in an IIS server environment, Windows IIS or any of the other flavors of Microsoft Windows server environments requires a little more expertise. We're not going to get into the details of that in this series but, you know, you want to talk to a system administrator about that and they could definitely get you started on how to install this thing on a Windows server. So we talked about needing Linux or Windows and an Apache web server and then you also need PHP. So PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language. It's a back-end programming language built for web development, built for websites, really nice language. Pretty straightforward to learn how to use and the nice thing is we're not really going to look at any or very much PHP at all in this series, or hardly any at all but if you know PHP and you want to get your hands into the code, Drupal is completely built on PHP. All of the Drupal template code, all the Drupal code behind the scenes is PHP driven or flavors of PHP. So that's good to know. But you definitely need PHP to run Drupal. So whatever server, whether it's Linux or Windows or whatever, you have to have PHP installed on it and usually the 5 version of PHP is the way to go. Finally, you need MySQL and MySQL is what you use to run your Drupal database. Drupal sites are database-driven sites. They're dynamic completely. There's nothing static about a Drupal site. It's all data coming out of a database and that database is MySQL. It's, you know, the world's, as it says here, the most popular open-source database out there. So everything we're looking at is all open source, freely-downloadable stuff. You can, you know, download MySQL, PHP and actually install it on your Windows or Linux machine. We're actually going to do that. In this course, we're going to go ahead and install MySQL and PHP and Apache. This is the technology stack. MySQL, PHP and Apache and we're going to install those on a thumb drive or either a USB drive or your local Desktop. I'll be doing it on my local Desktop and I'll show you how to actually run Drupal right from this application stack, this technology stack right from your local Desktop. But we will spend some time during the tutorials talking about what it takes to take your site live into a production environment. There's a lot more information about the technology stack at the Drupal.org site, this getting started before your start page. So when we come back in the second part of this intro I'm going to go through this part of the Drupal.org site just so you're familiar with where these, where this information is and we're also going to then take a brief look at the different server environments out there to support Drupal. There's share hosting environments and the more commercial hosting environments that you might want to look at for your live production site once you've, once you do everything in the tutorial series and then you want to take your website live, how you can get out there and make it work.

Tutorial Information

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

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