Drupal Installation Tutorial

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How to use Drupal Awdhesh Kumar
(Team Leader)

• Presentation Topic

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What is Drupal
Drupal is one of the best Content Management
Systems (CMS). It is written in PHP and requires
a MySQL database. Its basic installation can be
easily turned into many different types of web
sites - from simple web logs tolarge online
communities.
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Drupal Installation

• In order to install the Drupal CMS application,
  please follow the step-by-step instructions
  below
• Step 1- Download the installation file from
  Drupal.org by choosing the latest stable version
  and clicking on the download link next to the
  package.
• Step 2- Upload it in the public_html folder of
  your account. You can do that through an FTP
  client like FileZilla or via cPanel -gt File
  Manager -gt Upload file(s). This way, after the
  installation is completed, the script will appear
  once your write something like http//yourdomainna
  me.com in your web browser. Or you can create a
  subfolder there and upload the file in it. The
  Drupal installation will be available at
  http//yourdomainname.com/subfolder.
• Step 3- Once you are in the File Manager, please
  navigate to the uploaded file and extract it by
  clicking on the Extract link. It will create a
  subfolder drupal-x.x.x., where instead of x.x.x.
  is the current version. So you can move the files
  one level up in the desired directory. The other
  option is to extract the file in your computer
  and then to upload the content in the desired
  folder via FTP.

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Drupal Installation (Continue)

• Step 4- Once the files are extracted in the
  desired folder, you should create a MySQL
  database for Drupal. You can do that from cPanel
  -gt MySQL Databases. There you should create a
  database and add a user to it - click here to
  learn how to create a MySQL database and user.
• Step 5- Navigate to the URL of your Drupal site
  and run the install.php file (for example
  http//yourdomainname.com/install.php). Pick the
  default profile option for your Drupal
  application.

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Drupal Installation (Continue)

• Step 6- Pick the default language for the Drupal
  web site.

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Drupal Installation (Continue)

• Step 7- Enter the database details for the
  database which you have created in Step 4. Click
  on the Save and continue button to continue.

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Drupal Installation (Continue)

• Step 8- The installation procedure is finished.
  You will see the following screen
• Enter the site information and the administrative
  login details. Click on the Save and Continue
  button.

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Drupal Installation (Continue)

• Step 9- Well done! The installation is completed
  and you can proceed to your web site.

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How to use Drupal?

• How to start a Drupal site?
• How to create new content?
• Content Management

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How to start a Drupal site?

• All you need to do is sign up for a hosting
  account where you can have the Drupal application
  installed. Here at Site Ground we offer a FREE
  Drupal installation! With our Professional Drupal
  hosting package you can start creating your site
  right away! If you already have a hosting account
  and would like to change your host, we offer free
  website transfer of your Drupal site.

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How to create new content?

• In order to add content for your Drupal web site,
  you need to click on the Add content link under
  your administrator area.
• The Article option is suitable for a blog, news
  or other time-sensitive content.
• The Basic Page option allows you to create a
  static page

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Content Management

• In order to manage the content structure elements
  of your Drupal web site, you need to navigate to
  the Structure section under your administrator
  area.

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Content Management (Continue)

• In the following lines we will give a brief
  description of the options under this section
• Blocks - This functionality allows to manage the
  content that will be visualized through blocks on
  the sidebars and other regions of the web site.
  The blocks can be situated on the themes regions
  through a drag-and-drop interface. They are
  configured separately per each theme due to the
  different visualization setup.

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Content Management (Continue)

• Content types - Manage content types, including
  default status, front page promotions, comment
  settings and more. You can include new content
  types besides Basic Page and Article.

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Content Management (Continue)

• Menus - Allows to add new menu, edit existing
  ones, manage them, list, add and reorganize the
  menu links. You can also define the menu sources.
  

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Content Management (Continue)

• Taxonomy - You can manage the tagging, the
  categorization and classification of your
  content.

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Drupal themes?

• How to change the default Drupal theme?
• How to install new Drupal themes?

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How to change the default Drupal theme?

• The default Drupal installation comes with
  several themes which can be changed from your
  administration area. Log in as an
  administrator,click on Administer -gt Appearance
  and choose which theme you want to use for your
  website.

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How to install new Drupal themes?

• Drupal keeps its skins in the themes subfolder.
  To install additional themes, you can get the
  archived theme from theSiteGround Drupal themes
  gallery (these themes are compatible with Drupal
  7.x) or from the Drupal official theme resource.
  Extract the files under the themessubfolder. This
  can be done through cPanel -gt FileManager.
• If you don't have cPanel or you prefer using an
  FTPclient, you can extract the archived theme to
  your comp uter and thenupload the theme's files
  to the themes folder in your Drupal installation
  directory.

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How to install new Drupal themes? (Continue)

• You should now be able to see the theme at your
  Drupal Administration Area -gt Appearance. Enable
  it and set it as default.

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How to install new Drupal themes? (Continue)

• The Update t ab allows to view the outdated
  themes and get the new versions.

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How to install new Drupal themes? (Continue)

• In the Settings section you can manage the global
  visualization settings for your web site. You can
  also overwrite them per each theme.

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How to Manage Users in Drupal?

• You can manage users' rights from the Drupal
  Admin Section -gt People.

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How to Manage Users in Drupal? (Continue)

• Here you can filter the list with the users
  registered in your system based on the role,
  defined permissions and status (active, blocked
  or both).
• The Update Options drop-down menu allows the
  chosen accounts to be blocked, canceled, promoted
  as administrators or downgraded back to regular
  users.
• Also, you can add a new user or edit a selected
  one using the corresponding links.

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How to Manage Users in Drupal? (Continue)

• Also, you can add a new user or edit a selected
  one using the corresponding links.

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Access Control in Drupal

• The access control list in the Drupal's admin
  panel -gt People -gt Permissions is quite
  self-explanatory.
• There you can modify the predefined permissions
  for the different user types (anonymous,
  authenticated and administrator).

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Access Control in Drupal (Continue)

• A typical use of the access control is when you
  want to make some parts of your site available
  only for registered users. The default access
  control rules are quite safe, but you might want
  to change them to satisfy better your needs.
  Spend some time playing with the permissions
  options to better understand what you can do.

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Search Engine Friendly URLs

• Here we will try to explain how you can enable
  the clean URLs in Drupal in three simple steps.
  All SiteGround servers fully support the Apache
  mod_rewrite module and all Drupal users hosted on
  our servers will be able to use the clean URLs
  option.

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Search Engine Friendly URLs (Continue)

• log in the administrative back end of your Drupal
  site and make sure that the "Path" module is
  enabled. This module is essential for the clean
  URLs in Drupal.
• Once you are logged click on the "Modules" link

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Search Engine Friendly URLs (Continue)

• Scroll down the page, find the Path module, tick
  the little check box on the left of the module
  and save the settings

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Search Engine Friendly URLs (Continue)

• The next and final step is to test the clean URLs
  and confirm their functionality. In the
  administrative back end click on the
  Configuration link from the top menu and open the
  Clean URLs section.

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Search Engine Friendly URLs (Continue)

• The page will be loaded. Make sure that the clean
  URLs checkbox is enabled and the configuration is
  saved.

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Thank You