Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) is a Drupal distribution designed for event organizers. It provides a robust set of features for managing conferences, events, and venues. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install COD on Kali Linux Latest.
To install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Git on Kali Linux Latest, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 php5-mysql git
Go to the COD website and download the latest version of COD. Alternatively, you can clone COD’s Git repository by running the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/conforganizer/cod.git
After downloading COD, move the files to Apache document root directory which is usually located in /var/www/html/. You can do this using the following command:
sudo mv cod /var/www/html/
COD uses MySQL for its database storage. To create a new database and user for COD, run the following commands in your terminal:
mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted. Then, create a new database called cod by typing:
CREATE DATABASE cod;
Create a new user named coduser and set a password (replace password with your chosen password):
CREATE USER 'coduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Grant the user all privileges on the cod database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cod.* TO 'coduser'@'localhost';
Flush the privileges:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit MySQL by typing:
exit;
To allow COD to write to its configuration files and logs, you need to set the proper permissions for the directories. Run the following commands in your terminal:
sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/html/cod/sites/default/files
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/cod/sites/default/files
sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/html/cod/sites/default/settings.php
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/cod/sites/default/settings.php
COD uses Drush for its installation. To install Drush, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install drush
Then, navigate to the COD directory by running:
cd /var/www/html/cod/
Install COD by running the following command:
sudo drush site-install cod --db-url=mysql://coduser:password@localhost/cod
This command installs COD with MySQL database cod and the user coduser with password.
After the installation, access COD at http://localhost/cod. You will then be prompted to log in with the username admin and the password admin.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) on Kali Linux Latest. Now you can start using COD to manage your conferences, events, and venues.
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