Installing Drupal on your server

Drupal is a powerful open source content management system (CMS). It is highly modular, which means it can be customized to perform nearly any task by installation of additional plugins. Drupal is written entirely in PHP, which makes it quite easy to install.

This recipe pulls together strands from various preceding chapters. We will demonstrate how to use recipes provided in this book to set up a working web server hosting a website powered by the Drupal CMS platform.

Tip

Package repositories of many operating system distributions host a package for Drupal. You may choose to install the package if you don't intend to host multiple different versions of the software. Note that Drupal may be updated more frequently than packages in your OS repository, which could possibly lead to using an insecure version of the software. Look for documentation contained within the package for more information if you choose this route.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, we...