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 7.2, Drupal 7.56, and PHP 5.4.16.
Logging in to the CVM instance
Installing the MariaDB service
1. MariaDB is supported by CentOS 7 and later by default, so it is used here. Install the MariaDB service in the CVM instance with yum
.
yum install mariadb-server mariadb -y
2. Start the MariaDB service.
3. Create a database for Drupal (the database used in this project is named drupal
).
mysqladmin -u root -p create drupal
Here, drupal
is the name of the database used by the Drupal service.
4. Create a user for the database.
Authorize the user and exit the database after successful authorization.
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 by the Drupal service, respectively.
Installing the Apache service
1. Install Apache in the CVM instance with yum
.
2. Launch the Apache service.
3. Test Apache.
Note:
In 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. Enter 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, Apache has started successfully.
Installing PHP
1. Install PHP and its extensions in the CVM instance with yum
.
yum install php php-dom php-gd php-mysql php-pdo -y
2. Create an info.php file in the /var/www/html
directory of the CVM instance to check whether PHP is successfully installed. Below is the sample code:
3. Restart the Apache service.
4. Enter 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.
Installing the Drupal service
1. Download the Drupal installation package.
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.56.zip
2. Decompress it to the root directory of the website.
unzip drupal-7.56.zip
mv drupal-7.56/* /var/www/html/
3. Download the Chinese translation package.
cd /var/www/html/
wget -P profiles/standard/translations http://ftp.drupal.org/files/translations/7.x/drupal/drupal-7.56.zh-hans.po
4. Modify the owner and group to which the sites
directory belongs.
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/sites
5. Restart the Apache service.
6. 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 page of Drupal, select the version to be installed, and click Save and continue.
7. Select the language for installation and click Save and continue.
8. Set up the database and enter the database information you configured when installing the MariaDB service.
9. Enter the site information.
10. Complete the Drupal installation.
11. Then, you can visit http://115.xxx.xxx.xxx/
(where 115.xxx.xxx.xxx
is the IP address of your CVM instance) to customize the website.
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