Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) is a handy Drupal distribution that allows you to create online conference websites. It is specially designed for academic conferences and events that require a lot of features such as paper submission, review, registration, and scheduling. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of COD on a Fedora Server.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
To begin, you need to install the LAMP stack on your Fedora Server if you haven't already done so. The LAMP stack includes Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Here is how you can install it on your Fedora Server:
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install httpd mariadb-server php php-cli php-mysqlnd php-pdo php-gd php-xml php-mbstring
sudo systemctl start httpd.service
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Next, create a new MySQL database for your COD installation. You can do this by logging in to the MySQL shell:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Once you are logged in, create a new database:
CREATE DATABASE cod;
Then, create a new database user and grant permission to the cod database:
CREATE USER 'coduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cod.* TO 'coduser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
In the above commands, replace password with a secure password for your COD database user.
Download the latest version of COD from the official website http://usecod.com/. You can download the file using the SSH client or use the following command:
wget https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/cod-8.x-2.9-core.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded COD file in your web root directory:
sudo tar -xvf cod-8.x-2.9-core.tar.gz -C /var/www/html
Note that the above command assumes that your web root directory is /var/www/html. If it is different, replace the path with your own.
Next, rename the extracted folder:
sudo mv /var/www/html/cod-8.x-2.9 /var/www/html/cod
Give the appropriate permissions to the cod folder:
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/cod/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/cod/
Open your web browser and navigate to your server IP address or domain name. You will see the COD installation page. Choose the language and click on the "Save and Continue" button.
In the next page, select "Custom Installation" and click on "Save and Continue." Enter the details of your MySQL database that you created in Step 2.
The database name should be cod.
The database username should be the user that you created coduser.
The database password is the password you created for that user.
Click on "Advanced Options" and select the "Standard Installation" profile.
Enter your site information such as site name, site email, username, and password for the site administrator account. Click on "Save and Continue."
The installation process will take a few minutes to complete. Once it is completed successfully, log in to the COD dashboard using the administrator account that you created.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) on your Fedora Server. You can now create conference websites and manage them with the powerful Drupal CMS!
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