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How To: Install Drupal on your Ubuntu Linux VPS

Modified on Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:02 PM

To start this guide off, we will be updating our clean OS version of Ubuntu 18.04. You are welcome to modify the steps in this guide to suit your already active system, just note that there may be additional steps that are required but not covered in this document.

Also, this guide assumes that you have already created a non-root user as some steps will require one. You can use the following guide if you have not already prepared one: https://help.skysilk.com/support/solutions/articles/9000126208--basic-how-to-create-new-users-and-grant-sudo-privileges-to-users-on-linux

As we are using a freshly installed machine, we're going to update it.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Next up we're going to install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and the other required basic dependencies.

sudo apt install apache2 mysql-server php libapache2-mod-php php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml php7.2-dev php7.2-cli php7.2-common php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-memcached php-pear php7.2-json php7.2-mbstring php7.2-intl php7.2-mysql php7.2-xml php7.2-zip php7.2-apcu php7.2-ctype php7.2-dom php7.2-iconv php7.2-imagick php7.2-opcache php7.2-pdo php7.2-mysqli php7.2-xml php7.2-tokenizer php7.2-simplexml php7.2-bcmath software-properties-common curl git zip unzip php-zip

Now we want to create a MySQL database and user for our Drupal install. Please see this guide for a first time MySQL server setup https://help.skysilk.com/support/solutions/articles/9000182519-how-to-install-mysql-server-on-your-ubuntu-18-04-19-04-vps

mysql -u root -p

Once you're in, we're going to create a user and database specifically for Drupal to use. We'll restart Apache after.

CREATE DATABASE drupal_db;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal_db.* TO '<username>'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<awesomepasswordHere>';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES

Exit;

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Moving forward, we will download and install Composer to; download, manage and maintain our Drupal codebase. Afterward, we will make it so that Composer is accessible by all users on the system.

The newest release version(s) of Composer don't always play nicely with the latest version(s) of Drupal 8/9. Please verify that the composer version you install works properly with the Drupal version(s) that you install.

curl -sS -o inst_composer.php https://getcomposer.org/installer

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Now we will need to give Drupal a home. It's good practice to not keep all of the project files inside your www-root or www/html directories. We're going to put it in a folder outside of those - in this case /var/www/demodrup/. You are free to use any system or convention of your choosing.

mkdir /var/www/demodrup

chown <user>:<user> /var/www/demodrup

Now we will swap to our non-root user and move to the new directory. Then we're installing a drupal project template.

su <user>

cd /var/www/demodrup

composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev docroot --no-interaction

This might take some time depending on your machine and it's specs. When it finishes, run the following:

cd docroot

composer install

When this is completed, we're going to create two new directories.

mkdir config

cd config

mkdir sync

Now we're going to set up our Apache Virtual Host to tell the webserver how to find our Drupal site.

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf

Now we're going to edit the copied site configuration.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/demodrup/docroot/web
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Last steps here are going to be:

sudo a2ensite example.com.conf

sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf

sudo systemctl reload apache2

You should now be able to access your Drupal installer file. In our example, we did not use a domain so we used our VPS IP address ( example: http://12.34.56.78/core/install.php )

Just swap our example IP with your server IP address and you should see the installer page

For more information about using Composer to manage and install Drupal, see - https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/using-composer/using-composer-to-install-drupal-and-manage-dependencies

For more information about Drupal, you can find their official documentation at - https://www.drupal.org/documentation

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