Drupal is an open-source content management framework written in PHP, which consists of a content management system and a PHP development framework. It can be used to build rich-featured dynamic websites ranging from personal blogs to large communities.
This tutorial describes how to build a Drupal ecommerce website on a CVM instance.
Software environments used here include CentOS v7.2, Drupal v7.56, and PHP v5.4.16.
For more information on how to purchase and access CVM instances, see Getting Started with Linux-based CVM.
yum
.yum install mariadb-server mariadb -y
systemctl start mariadb
mysqladmin -u root -p create drupal
Here, "drupal" is the database name used in the Drupal service.mysql -u root -p
Authorize the user and exit the database after the authorization is successful.GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON drupal.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Here, "username" and "password" are the database username and password used in the Drupal service, respectively.yum
.yum install httpd -y
service httpd start
EnterIn this step, you should configure an inbound rule with the source being all and the port protocol being TCP:80 in the security group of your CVM instance. For more information on how to configure the security group, see Security Group.
http://115.xxx.xxx.xxx/
in your local browser (where 115.xxx.xxx.xxx
is the public IP of your CVM instance). If the following page appears, Apahce has started successfully.yum
.yum install php php-dom php-dg php-mysql php-pdo -y
/var/www/html
directory of the CVM instance to check whether PHP is successfully installed. Below is the sample code:<?php phpinfo(); ?>
service httpd restart
http://115.xxx.xxx.xxx/info.php
in your local browser (where 115.xxx.xxx.xxx
is the public IP of your CVM instance). If the following page appears, PHP has been installed successfully.wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.56.zip
unzip drupal-7.56.zip
mv drupal-7.56/* /var/www/html/
cd /var/www/html/
wget -P profiles/standard/translations http://ftp.drupal.org/files/translations/7.x/drupal/drupal-7.56.zh-hans.po
sites
directory belongs.chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sites
service httpd restart
Enter http://115.xxx.xxx.xxx/
in your local browser (where 115.xxx.xxx.xxx
is the public IP of your CVM instance) to go to the installation interface of Drupal, select the version to be installed, and click Save and continue.
Select the language for installation and click Save and continue.
Set up the database and enter the database information you configured when installing the MariaDB service.
Enter the site information.
Complete the process of Drupal installation.
You can access http://115.xxx.xxx.xxx/
(115.xxx.xxx.xxx
is the public IP of your CVM) to customize the website.
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