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• Acquia Stack Installer For Windows 10

In this post, I am going to guide you through the process of installing Drupal on a Linux box. I believe the best distribution for Drupal to be Ubuntu Server, the main reason for this is because we are going to use the Drupal Acquia Stack Installer, and its for Ubuntu, they recommend it. The Acquia Stack Installer is a package that includes Apache, MySQL and PHP all optimized for Drupal.We are going to do everything from scratch so you need to have two things to start:A server with nothing installed on it, this can be a box or a virtual private server (VPS). Your server must have at least 1Ghz Processor, 10GB of disk space and, 1GB of RAM. Technically Drupal can run with less disk space, RAM and with a slower processor, but for everything to run smooth lets go with the rule of 1101G (1Ghz processor, 10GB in disk space, 1GB RAM).

You should know that these specs are not the ones you should use for a production server, for that you would want more than one processor, more disk space and more RAM depending on the amount of traffic you expect on your site. If you are going to host a high traffic site you should also consider scaling your infrastructure, this means getting a more than one web server, move the database to a separate server and using a load balancer to delegate the requests equally between the web servers. The purpose of this post is to guide you through the process of installing Drupal on Ubuntu. So lets get going!First if you don't already have it, you will need the latest. At the time of this post, the lastest Ubuntu Server Edition is 9.10.

Make sure you download the right version for you, depending on your server architecture; you may need the 32-bit or 64-bit version. In my case I will use 32-bit on my VPS.Burn the image to a CD and turn your server on with the CD inside, or load it as the ISO image on your VPS and you should get the Ubuntu Server installation screen when the server boots.Select English as your language, and choose Install Ubuntu Server on the next screen:The GUI installer will load and you will need to choose the language you want for the installation process, choose English again and hit Enter. Choose your country or territory in the next screen then Ubuntu will want to detect your keyboard layout, choose Yes and hit Enter. The detection process will start and you will have to follow a set of simple instructions, once that is over you can confirm your keyboard layout and continue with the installation. The next screen will load all the installer components and do various detections of your system. After that completes you will be asked to enter your hostname, go ahead and do that, if you are just installing a test server or development server you leave the name at 'ubuntu'.Next you will be asked to enter your timezone and then you the installer will ask you what partitioning method you would like to use:Go ahead and choose 'Guided - use entire disk and setup LVM' and verify your selection in the next screen. Do note that all the data in the disk of your server will be erased.

Acquia Stack Installer For Windows 10

Choose the default settings on all screens until you get to the confirmation screen. Then go ahead and choose Yes to start the partitioning of the disk and to start the installation of the base system.After the base system installation is complete, you will be required to enter the full name of the admin user (not root user). Ubuntu uses an additional admin user account. Go ahead and enter the full name of the owner of the admin account, then type in a username for that same account. Then type in a password, make sure its a safe password (mixture of letters, numbers and punctuation), the next screen will ask you to retype the same password. Then you will get the following screen:It is completely up to you if you want your home directory encrypted, i will choose No for this to keep it simple. The next screen will ask you to enter the proxy information if your server is behind one, in my case my server isnt so im going to leave it blank and choose 'Continue'.

The installer will continue to configure your settings, and will ask you how to manage the updates:I recommend you choose to install the security updates automatically.The next screen is very important, its where you choose what type of server you want, the options include: a Mail server, a LAMP server, a DNS server. I know it seams like we should choose 'LAMP server' but we are going to choose 'Manual Package Selection'.The reason for this is because we dont want apache, mysql and php to be installed for us now, we are gonna use the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer and that includes everything we need and its optimized for Drupal! So lets move on with that option selected:Since you chose to manually install packages, you will get this screen:We wont install anything from here so just type 'q' and and Enter and the installation should continue and completed:When this happens make sure you remove the CD or unload the ISO image before rebooting.You have completed the installation of Ubuntu Server 9.10! Now we can move on to the stack installation, once you reboot your server you will be prompted to login, go ahead and use the username and password you provided during installation.Once you are logged in create a folder called 'installers':name@ubuntu:$ mkdir installersname@ubuntu:$ cd installersDownload the using the wget command.