Does anyone have experience of drupal installation under CentoOS-5.3 with MySQL database preferably accessed through phpMyAdmin. I want to install drupal more or less as an experiment, and I'm looking for a 1- or 2-page document that just lists precisely what steps to take. I've had a quick look at the official installation instructions, and I found them confusing and contradictory. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Timothy Murphy wrote:> Does anyone have experience of drupal installation under CentoOS-5.3 > with MySQL database preferably accessed through phpMyAdmin. > > I want to install drupal more or less as an experiment, > and I'm looking for a 1- or 2-page document > that just lists precisely what steps to take.I believe RPMForge offers Drupal 5 and 6 http://packages.sw.be/drupal6/ -- Sincerely, John Thomas
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at ...> writes:> > Does anyone have experience of drupal installation under CentoOS-5.3 > with MySQL database preferably accessed through phpMyAdmin. > > I want to install drupal more or less as an experiment, > and I'm looking for a 1- or 2-page document > that just lists precisely what steps to take. > > I've had a quick look at the official installation instructions, > and I found them confusing and contradictory. >I installed Drupal 6 a while ago since I wanted something more powerful that WordPress. I captured my experience in a series of postings at: http://davenjudy.org/davesBlog/forum/22 Yes, you probably want to have a separate database user for Drupal. I don't think it's a requirement; just good practice. I found the book "Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6" by David Mercer to be very helpful. Cheers, Dave
Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote:>>Honestly, I think you would then be better off with something else. Drupal is one of the more powerful, but also more complex CMS systems available. << Amen. My wife used to have a static web site that was designed and built for her by a web/graphic designer. When it started to age and updating it proved problematic on account of the complex graphics, I moved her to Joomla. We used on of the standard templates and her site now is much more dynamic, with newsy content reasonably frequently updated. From my perspective, it's been very easy to install and maintain, with security fixes just a matter of wget'ing and untarring the update files into her public_html directory (this is all on Centos 5.3, of course). I'm currently working with Drupal for a much more ambitious project for the university security group where I'm a student, and it's a whole different ball-game. Best, --- Les Bell [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144