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[jibberish]

Hi

All the Drupal stackscripts seem to be deprecated or no longer working. Anyone know of any that are still working?

Cheers

Jibb

[obs]

Nope but drupal's pretty easy to install manually if you just pick a LAMP/LEMP script you like then if you get stuck ask here telling us which script you used and we can point you in the right direction.

[jibberish]

Thanks for that.

Can anyone recommend a good base LAMP / LEMP stacksript as a starting point for a Druapl 7 install?

There seem to be a number out there. I'm a bit of a noob here. I've been developing my site on my home PC using WAMP and I don't really know which to go for. I've heard good things about Varnish, but beyond that, I'm a little lost.

Cheers

Jibb

[obs]

This one's mine http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/?StackScriptID=2471 I suggest the following settings:
install mysql = yes
mysql password = up to you, make it something hard to crack but that you can remember
install nginx from ppa = yes
ssh port = whatever you like, you can leave it at 22
user = whatever you like, this is who you'll log in as
user password = see mysql password
user ssh key = optional but recommended see http://library.linode.com/security/ssh-keys#sph_generate-keys-on-windows-systems on how to generate one, you need to put the public key in that box
root email = your email
hostname = if your server is example.com then s1.example.com is a fair idea
Use ec2 kernel = no
which webserver = nginx

You can view the progress of the installation using LISH see here http://library.linode.com/troubleshooting/using-lish-the-linode-shell

Once it's installed, reboot then run the following commands
Code:
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.10.tar.gz
tar -xf drupal-7.10.tar.gz
sudo mv drupal-7.10 /var/www/drupal

The sudo commands will ask for the user password you set at installation.

Then run Code: sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/drupal and put the contents of the following link in that file http://p.linode.com/6208 changing example.com to your domain press ctrl+x then y to save it, run Code: service nginx reload to restart nginx

You'll then be able to access the drupal installation from your domain (assuming you've set up your DNS records see here http://library.linode.com/dns-guides/configuring-dns-with-the-linode-manager)

Note you'll have to create a database and user for drupal using whatever your favourite mysql client is.

[jibberish]

oh wow! awesome - thanks so much for this :D :D

Gonna give this a try from home this evening.

Thanks

Jibb

[hoopycat]

When I need a PHP-based web server, I usually go with the "official" Linode stackscript. It works.