Setting up a virtual machine for Drupal Installation

Virtual Machine

1  Update Drupal

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

2 Create administrative user

sudo useradd abernal -G sudo -d /home/abernal

3 Login as the administrative user

sudo su abernal

4  Create user www-data with shell access and home directory

sudo useradd www-data -d /home/www-data 

If already exists

sudo usermod www-data -d /home/www-data -s /bin/bash
sudo passwd www-data

<PASSWORD>

sudo mkdir -p /home/www-data
sudo cp /etc/skel/.* /home/www-data/
sudo chown www-data:www-data /home/www-data/ -R

5 Install Zip and Unzip

sudo apt install zip unzip -y

6  Install Nginx Web Server

sudo apt install nginx -y
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
systemctl status nginx

7  Install MariaDB 

# Setup MariaDB
sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client -y
systemctl status mysql
sudo systemctl start mysql
sudo systemctl enable mysql
sudo mysql_secure_installation

# Setup Drupal user
sudo mysql -u root -p
create database domain;
create user domain@localhost;
set password for domain@localhost=password('<PASSWORD>');
grant all privileges on domain.* to domain@localhost identified by '<PASSWORD>';
flush privileges;
exit;

8  Install php7

sudo apt install php7.0-fpm php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml php7.0-mysql php7.0-common php7.0-gd php7.0-json php7.0-cli php7.0-curl -y
sudo systemctl start php7.0-fpm
systemctl status php7.0-fpm
php --version

9.0 [OPTIONAL] Settup Nginx configurations

https://github.com/perusio/drupal-with-nginx#installation

9 Create a Default Nginx Server Block File

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/site

server {

 listen 80;
 server_name www.domain.com domain.com;
 root /home/www-data/domain/;
 index index.php index.html index.htm;

 error_page 404 /404.html;
 error_page 500 502 503 504;

rewrite ^/core/authorize.php/core/authorize.php(.*)$ /core/authorize.php$1;

location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
  return 403;
}

#Block access to hidden directories
  location ~ (^|/)\. {
    return 403;
  }

  location ~ ^/sites/.*/private/ {
    return 403;
  }

  # No php is touched for static content
  location / {
    try_files $uri @rewrite;
  }

  # Clean URLs
  location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^ /index.php;
  }

  # Image styles
  location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/styles/ {
    try_files $uri @rewrite;
  }

  location = /favicon.ico {
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
  }

  location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }

location ~* ^/update.php {
  fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
  fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
  fastcgi_index update.php;
  include fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/update.php;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME /update.php;
}

# set client body size to 2M 
client_max_body_size 2M;

}

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

10 Set the created domain configuration as enabled

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/domain.conf
sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

11 Login as www-data user

sudo su www-data

12 Get at the home folder

cd

13 Create the web folder

mkdir domain

14 Create the composer folder

mkdir composer

15 Get into the composer folder

cd composer

16 Install Composer

# Check for updates at https://getcomposer.org/download/
# Usually execute these commands

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '669656bab3166a7aff8a7506b8cb2d1c292f042046c5a994c43155c0be6190fa0355160742ab2e1c88d40d5be660b410') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"

php composer-setup.php

php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

17 Install Drush

# Check for updates at http://www.geoffstratton.com/installing-drush-8
# Usually execute these commands

./composer.phar global require drush/drush

18 Edit the .bashrc file in order to add composer binaries folder into the PATH environment variable

# Adding the composer bin folder into the PATH environment variable
export PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin

19 Load the .bashrc configuration again in order to apply last changes

cd
​source .bashrc

20 Upload the templates

cd
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
wget <link to the template uri>

21 Unzip the template

unzip <template>

22 Move the site files within the domain folder

mv files_for_site/* ~/domain/

23 Load the premade database from the template into the already created database

mysql -u domain -p domain < file_with_sql/template.sql

24 Configure Drupal

cp ~/domain/sites/default/default.settings.php ~/domain/sites/default/settings.php
chmod u+w ~/domain/sites/default
chmod u+w ~/domain/sites/default/settings.php

​25 Configure Drupal settings.php

# Increase memory for drupal, adding the next line within the settings.php
ini_set('memory_limit', '1024M');

 $settings['trusted_host_patterns'] = array(
   '^example\.com$',
   '^.+\.example\.com$',
   '^example\.org$',
   '^.+\.example\.org$',
 );