Please note: our regular meeting room is not available on the usual fourth Thursday for our August meeting, so we will meet Tuesday, August 24 instead, also at the St. Louis Artists' Guild in Clayton, first floor conference room. Please see previous meeting announcements if you need directions or a map.
We have some special demonstrations planned for this meeting!
Installing Drupal: Greg Todd will demonstrate installing Drupal on a remote server and doing basic site configuration. This should be an excellent opportunity for those who haven't yet installed Drupal, and want to see what it's all about... or a good review if you've only done a few installations, or still have questions about these first steps.
Installing and Using Drush: Then, for intermediate users ready to take Drupal site management to the next level, Mark Ewers will give us an overview and demonstration of Drush, the command line utility for Drupal. He'll show us how Drush can boost your productivity, how to install and configure Drush, and he'll demonstrate the basics of managing your sites using this powerful and versatile Drupal management tool.
This should be a great meeting, we hope everyone interested in getting started or taking a step up with Drupal will be able to attend. If you are already using both Drupal and Drush, we hope you'll come and share your thoughts and experience.
Please use the signup form so we will have an idea how many to expect. See you August 24!
Edit: for those of you not accustomed to reading military time (that includes me), the meeting begins at 7:00 PM
Comments
I plan to be there. Eliot
Me 1.
Here's a map
Here's a map for those who haven't been before (or are forgetful like me).
http://tinyurl.com/ycff7vq
Meeting reminder
Don't forget, meeting tonight at 7:00 PM at the St. Louis Artists' Guild. Meeting is in the first floor conference room, look for signs once you are inside the building. Enter at the side door with the ramp.
Here's a map. http://tinyurl.com/ycff7vq
Presentation Notes
Thanks to all who came last night. Notes for my presentation can be found below (with some additions).
Programs used
http://filezilla-project.org/
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://www.7-zip.org/
cPanel
Linux Commands
curl http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.19.tar.gz | tar -xzDownloads Drupal 6.19 and extracts the contents. Make sure that you move these files into the correct location after downloading.
cd ~/public_html/sites/defaultcp default.settings.php settings.phpChanges the current directory to the "default" site folder (correct path may vary depending on the server), and creates a copy of "default.settings.php" named "settings.php".
mkdir -p ~/public_html/sites/all/modulesCreates a "modules" folder that is shared by all sites. (correct path may vary depending on the server)
cd ~/public_html/sites/all/modulescurl http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/views-6.x-2.11.tar.gz | tar -xzcurl http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/cck-6.x-2.8.tar.gz | tar -xzcurl http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/admin_menu-6.x-1.5.tar.gz | tar -xzChanges the current directory to the "modules" folder for all sites (correct path may vary depending on the server), then downloads and extracts the Views (v2.11), CCK (v2.8), and Administration menu (v1.5) modules.
Cron command
curl --silent --compressed http://example.com/cron.phpRequests Drupal's "Cron" page. Add this command as a Cron job to run once an hour.
Important URLs
Log into your Drupal site
Update your database after updating Drupal, modules, or themes
Runs Drupals "cron" jobs, like cleaning the cache, indexing nodes, and other periodic tasks
The administrative interface
Thanks!
Thanks, Greg!