Systems Administration for Drupal: LAMP Stack

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2016-03-01 09:30 - 16:30 America/New_York
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Training (free or commercial)

Drupal requires a full stack of supporting applications to run, and these applications need to be managed.  
This course will cover best practices and methods for deploying, configuring and maintaining Linux environments running Drupal.

What we'll be covering:

  • Best practice server configuration
  • Best practice configurations for PHP, webserver, and MySQL/MariaDB
  • Systems administration tools
  • Drupal deployment methods
  • Handling regular maintenance tasks (uptades, backups ...)
  • Handling emergency maintenence tasks
  • Systems optimization

 We recommend (but in no way require) that participants come with some knowledge of the following:

  • Installing software on on Windows, Linux or Mac.
  • Basic understanding of working with Linux/Unix environments.


This is a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) session. We recommend bringing a laptop running a modern operating system (e.g. Windows 7 or later, OS X 10.10 or later, Ubuntu 14.04 or later).  We recommend having VirtualBox installed.  We do have a spare Windows 7 laptop available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

There is free parking available both in the parking lot as well as on the street. We'll take a 45 minute break for lunch and a 15 minute morning and afternoon break as well. Lunch is included.