Running Drupal

Appserver.io is a cool and sophiscated infrastructure fully built upon the PHP

stack. This makes it truely easy to develop and extend the platform. Appserver.io

comes with an built in webserver module with PHP-FPM therefore it is possible to

install any PHP-App and run it on that platform. The following guide shows how easy

it is to install appserver.io on a Mac and run Wordpress.

Prerequisite: Up and running installation of MySQL

You will need a running installation of appserver.io (>= Version 1.0.0-rc3). If you

are new to this project you can easily download and follow the installation guide for

your specific OS.

After the setup has finished the appserver.io is up and running and you can call

the welcome page with

http://localhost:9080/

By default, appserver.io is configured to run on port 9080 in order to not to affect

any existing webserver installations. You can easily change that in the

/opt/appserver/etc/appserver.xml just by going to section

<server name="http" ...

and change the port within that section for example to 80. After that restart the

appserver.io which can be done with the following command.

sudo /opt/appserver/sbin/appserverctl restart

Of course there is no need to change the port if you only want to check out the

capabilities of this amazing platform.

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Installation:In order to run the application on appserver.io, download the latest drupal release

from drupal.org.

To install drupal there are now two options. The easiest way is to install drupal

without creating a vhost. Therefore just unpack the drupal source into your

Webrootfolder which in case of the appserver is always the webapps folder

underneath /opt/appserver/webapps/. In that folder you will still find the already

installed example app and of course the welcome page. Just create a folder named

„drupal“ and unpack the source there.

After successfully unpacking the drupal sources you are able to use the drupal

webinstaller just by open a browser and calling the URL

http://127.0.0.1:9080/drupal/. Before you you start the installation it is necessary to

create a settings.php file. Copy the default settings

cp /opt/appserver/webapps/drupal/sites/default/default.settings.php /opt/appserver/webapps/drupal/sites/default/settings.php

In addition make sure to correct the rights of the drupal folder to ensure drupal is

able to write the configuration.

chmod -R 775 /opt/appserver/webapps/drupal/

Now you are free to step through the installation wizard and therefore it is

necessary to create a MySQL database. To create a database you can use the MySQL

command line or just use another database administration tool like phpMyAdmin. Of

course you can also install phpMyAdmin on appserver.io. Just read the tutorial.

To create the database by the command line just use the following line

mysql -uroot -p

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On the MySQL command line it is easy to create an empty database. Just use the

following command.

CREATE DATABASE drupal;

Now you are ready to install drupal. Just follow the install wizard.

Installing with Virtual Host

To run a virtual host simply follow the steps below. As with any other Webserver

using a vhost you have to add the domain you like to use in your hosts file first.

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Add the following lines:

127.0.0.1 drupal.local::1 drupal.localfe80::1%lo0 drupal.local

Afterwards add the vhost to the webserver config of the appserver which you also

find in /opt/appserver/etc/appserver/conf.d/virtual-hosts.xml. There is

already an example virtual host configuration available. Add the following

configuration within the tag.

<virtualHost name="drupal.local"> <params> <param name="admin" type="string">info@appserver.io</param> <param name="documentRoot" type="string">webapps/drupal</param> </params></virtualHost>

After adding the Vhost, restart the appserver and start with the Installation as

described at the beginning of this tutorial

sudo /opt/appserver/sbin/appserverctl restart

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