Drupal install Apache Server

How to install Drupal install apache server for CTF lab Setup

Drupal is a powerful and popular CMS used by many webmasters to create powerful websites and blogs. If you’re looking open-source platform to create dynamic, PHP-based websites and blogs easily may want to take a look at Drupal CMS. Drupal install Apache

Download latest Drupal Setup file link

Download with wget command

sudo wget https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-8.8.1.zip

installing the apache server and MariaDB-server and unzip tool

sudo apt install unzip mariadb-server apache2 php

unzip the drupal zip file (-d location of file extract)

sudo unzip drupal-8.8.1.zip -d /var/www/html/

Drupal web application Changing Ownership of Directory (-R mean Recursively drupal directory inside all file)

• user: www-data
• group: www-data

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/drupal-8.8.1/

Drupal web application permission add and change permission Directory (-R mean Recursively Drupal directory inside all file)

• root: read, write, executable
• group: read, executable
• other: read, executable

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/drupal-8.8.1/

Connection MySQL database and create a new database for drupal application

sudo mysql -u root -p

Creating a new database

create database drupal;

Creating a new user for the database

create user 'paluser'@'localhost' identified by 'password';

granting permission to the database

grant all on drupal.* to 'paluser'@'localhost' identified by 'password' with grant option;

flush all privileges

flush privileges;

exit;

Now edit a line for drupal requirement our apache server configuration file AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

change a line AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
</Directory>

Drupal requirement PHP extensions installing

sudo apt install php-dom php-gd php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring

And restart our apache server

sudo service apache2 restart

And open your any web browser and type your IP address and drupal directory name

http://<your ip address>/drupal-8.8.1

The first option is to choose a language and save and continue

Click radio button Standard and Save and Continue

Next step is Set up database enter your database name, username, and user-password and save and continue

Drupal installing is the start you wait a minute

Configure the site name, and email, username password, and timezone country and save and continue

Finally, you see your drupal web site

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