Solaris How To: Drupal

Drupal 7 is located in /usr/share/drupal7
Drupal 8 is in /etc/drupal/8

Update drupal

download new minor version to, say, /tmp/drupal-7.28.tar.gz
back up:

 cd /usr/share
 tar cf drupal.140510.tar drupal7
 cd drupal7

untar the release, stripping off the first path element:

 gzip -c -d /tmp/drupal-7.XX.tar.gz | tar vxf - --strip 1

Fix the permissions so that drupal can fix its own modules (this is much more broad than necessary - I think it could be just the modules directory)

 find . -user root -ls -exec chown www-data:www-data \{\} \;
 find . -type f -exec chmod 664 \{\} \;
 find . -type d -exec chmod 775 \{\} \;

and finally, run update.php on all websites :-(

Create A New Site

Point the dns for fruitcake.org and www.fruitcake.org at bonmot.ca
Copy, paste, and modify a file for fruitcake.org in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

 site=fruitcake.org
 cd /usr/share/drupal7/sites/
 mkdir $site
 cp default/default.settings.php ${site}/settings.php
 for i in files modules themes ; do mkdir ${site}/${i} ; done
 chown -R www-data:www-data ${site}

Now create the database for it:

 site=fruitcake
 mysqladmin -uroot -p create $site
 mysql -uroot -p 
   grant all on fruitcake.* to 'fruitcake'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
   flush privileges;
   exit

You're done. Go to http://fruitcake.org/ and follow the setup wizard, giving it the database info.

Now enter theme selection and configuration hell - but that's your problem.

Create A New Sub Site

e.g. for the site http://bonmot.ca/fruitcake/
Create (or copy & rename) a file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/bonmot.ca.fruitcake.conf

 Alias /fruitcake /usr/share/drupal7

... and restart apache2 with /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
create the database as above
run shellscript above with site=bonmot.ca.fruitcake
cp default/default.settings.php $site/settings.php
chown www-data:www-data $site/settings.php
go to the url and follow the setup wizard, and then into theme hell.

Update drupal

Create A New Site

Create A New Sub Site

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