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setup on debian
- creating the database user: http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/create-database/mysql
multisite setup on debian
the drupal5 package installs drupal in /usr/share/drupal5, with config files in /etc/drupal/5. with a multi-site setup, this is the codebase that will be used by all of the sites. in theory it will be updated by the package-manager.
the following is based on http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/multi-site
to make a new site:
make a VirtualHost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/new_site
<VirtualHost *> ServerAdmin admin@example.com DocumentRoot /usr/share/drupal5 ServerName new-site.example.com <Directory "/"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory "/usr/share/drupal5"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined ServerSignature Off </VirtualHost>
then symlink this VirtualHost from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled ln -sf ../new-site 001-new-site
also you need to make a new site config directory in /etc/drupal/5/sites. the easiest way to do this is to copy the “default” site:
cp -r /etc/drupal/5/sites/default /etc/drupal/5/sites/new-site.example.com
the name of the directory needs to be the domain under which the site will be accessed.
make sure that both the dbconfig.php and settings.php files are writeable by www-data.
chown .www-data /etc/drupal/5/sites/dbconfig.php /etc/drupal/5/sites/settings.php chmod g+w /etc/drupal/5/sites/dbconfig.php /etc/drupal/5/sites/settings.php
before you have a real domain setup, you can edit your /etc/hosts file on your local machine and add an entry that points the domain at the ip address of the server. eg:
78.46.38.135 new-site.example.com
possibly you also need to add this to the server /etc/hosts file???
now if you visit the new-site.example.com, it should run the installation script and set up the database.
themes
- overviews
- theme constructatron » http://drupal.org/project/atck
modules
- timeline http://drupal.org/project/timeline
- development 5.x release http://drupal.org/node/77900/release
things to find out
- flickr integration?
- special arrangements like our frontpage picture selection idea?
- module that uploads to flickr and drupal at the same time: http://drupal.org/project/flickrup
- how to do lists of related links
- will they be made manually? or based on tags? or…
- views?
- and only have them show up on the correct pages
- block configuration? if the pages have urls that can be selected with a wildcard, then it will be easier.
- what is cck? ;)