Posted by vipulseth on March 8, 2012 at 10:19pm
I wanted to develop a CMS for a non-profit and it seems Drupal would be a good choice. I have good IT experience but not web development experience. So I will appreciate if someone can help (guide) me with what kind of OS/Web Server I need (e.g. Linux/Apache), the installation of OS/Web Server, the installation of Drupal and then starting development with Drupal. I found these books on Amazon that supposedly could help but I am not sure and would need your inputs. Thanks!
Drupal For Dummies by Lynn Beighley (Kindle)
Drupal 7 Manual by David Ipswich (Paperback)
Drupal User's Guide: Building and Administering a Successful Drupal-Powered Web Site by Emma Jane Hogbin
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I would recommend this
I would recommend this one
http://www.amazon.com/The-Definitive-Guide-Drupal-Apress/dp/1430231351/r...
The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.
There is a ton of great info in it.
agree on the definitive guide
I agree that the Definitive Guide by Apress is a good one. I've found it very helpful.
I'm a Drupal greenie myself, but I'd be glad to give advice setting up your server.
Re: Setting up Server
Thanks!
Can I resue an e-machine (3 year old) I have by installing Linux etc. on it or do I need something stronger? As I understand it, there are different modules for different purposes. How do these interact with each other? I want ability to have a 'universal' content and content based on permissions. Any experience in this regard?
My Home machine
When I need to do work no in the office I have a 5 year old dell laptop w/ 2 gigs of ram running Linux Mint 12. It works fine as a dev machine.
Your e-machine provided it has enough ram will be great.
old pc could be fine
An older pc could be fine. Probably the important thing is to make sure it has lots of ram.
using an old pc for drupal
I set up an old Dell Dimension 4700 desktop PC as a LAMP server for Drupal. I bought the chassis with no monitor, disk drive, keyboard, etc. for $10 at a yard sale. I maxxed the memory to 2Gb and added a SATA 1Tb hard drive. I run Ubuntu Linux on it. It behaves just fine.
Right now I use it as my sandbox, but I'm headed in the direction of using it for QA/staging and doing development directly on my laptop using the XAMPP stack.