Drupal is a powerful content management system (CMS) that can be installed on a variety of platforms. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Drupal on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have these things:
Before installing Drupal, we need to update the system to ensure that we have the latest software packages. To do so, open the command-line terminal and enter the following commands:
sudo dnf upgrade -y
This will download and install all the latest updates for the system.
Next, we need to install the LAMP stack, which includes Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP. To do so, enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo dnf install -y httpd mariadb-server php php-mysqlnd php-gd php-xml php-opcache
This will download and install all the necessary packages for the LAMP stack.
After installing the LAMP stack, we need to configure it to work with Drupal. To do so, we need to create a new MySQL/MariaDB user and database for Drupal. Enter the following commands to create a new database:
sudo mysql
This command will open the MySQL/MariaDB command-line terminal. Enter the following commands to create a new database user:
CREATE DATABASE drupal;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO 'drupaluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace password with a strong password that only you know.
Now we need to download and extract the Drupal installation files. Enter the following commands to download and extract Drupal:
sudo dnf install -y wget
cd /var/www/html
sudo wget https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-9.2.7.tar.gz
sudo tar -zxvf drupal-9.2.7.tar.gz
sudo mv drupal-9.2.7 drupal
sudo chown -R apache:apache drupal/
This will download and extract Drupal to the /var/www/html/drupal/ directory and set the proper ownership.
Now we need to configure Apache to serve the Drupal website. Enter the following commands to create a new Apache virtual host:
sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/drupal.conf
In the new file, enter the following text:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/drupal/
<Directory /var/www/html/drupal/>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/drupal_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/drupal_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace www.example.com with your domain name or IP address.
Save and close the file.
Now we need to enable and start the Apache and MariaDB services. Enter the following commands to do so:
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl start httpd.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
This will enable and start the services so that Drupal can be accessed through the web browser.
Finally, we can install Drupal through the web browser. Open your web browser and enter the following URL:
http://www.example.com/
Replace www.example.com with your domain name or IP address.
You will see the Drupal installation page. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Drupal on Fedora CoreOS Latest. You can now use Drupal to create and manage your website.
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