Setting up

To develop your portfolio site in Drupal, you need a working environment; either locally or hosted.

 

Locally; we're already familiar with Acquia Dev Desktop Mamp of XAMP. Install a new site through those.

In the last week we will see how to transfer your local site to a hosting.

 

Hosted: Directly create/manage your Drupal site on a webhosting.

Pros/Cons?

Not really applicable

 

It is ALWAYS recommended to develop a site locally first, and only place it on the hosting when it is ready.

 

Even now, I would STRONGLY recommend taking this approach.

 

HOWEVER, because of CoViD-19, it will be much easier to help you all if I can already log on to your site.
If you're not confident in your technical skills: its ok (for once) to start working on our webhost. 

Using an

installer script

Change & Write down the

Admin user & password!

Manual installation

See guides:

https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/installation-chapter.html

 

4 steps

1. Create a new database
2. Upload the code to your webhost
3. Create settings.php (*optional)
4. Run Drupal install script

1 Create DB

1. On CPanel use MySQL Management
2. Create a new DB
3. Add a user
   • save all the information

2. Upload the code

Upload the code to your webhost

1. Download the latest code from drupal.org
2. Upload through FTP or site filemanager

• Code usually goes in public_html

3. Create settings.php*

* This step is optional. The drupal install script can do this for you.

1. Through ftp/filemanager:
2. Go to sites/default
3. Copy default.settings.php and save it as settings.php
4. Add your Database credentials:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter your own dbname/dbuser/dbpass! ;-)

4. Run Drupal site installer

1. Visit your site ip/domain
2. If everything went right, the site should load install.php
   • If not: panic! (see next slide)
3. Follow the wizard
   • Don't forget:
     • Pick a good admin username & password
       • NOT root/root or admin/admin: You will get 'hacked' ;-)
     • Save this information! Write it down if need be

Something went wrong?

Step 1: Don't panic!

Step 2: Read the error

             Try and make sense of what is going wrong

Step 3: Google the error

             Look for possible solutions, try out a few

Step 4: Ask your fellow students

             Ask questions through slack or the facebook group

             That way we can collaborate: find solutions together

 

Still can't find a good solution?

Step 5: Tag me on Slack / Ask me on messenger ;-)

:-(

Verify for errors

after installation

Visit the status report!

Consult the Drupal error log if needed

Start configuring

Content-types, taxonomies, ...

Create the content-model

Go re-read the project briefing,
and start working on a content-model
for your project-site.

Make sure to go over all the requirements and ask yourself how they fit into your site structure.

 

Start drawing up a scheme like we did before, describing:

content-types,

their fields,

any taxonomies that you will need

Implement your model

Once you are satisfied with your model, you can start implementing it.

 

Start creating said content-types,
add fields, configure their display, set up the taxonomies,

 

 

Then write some content,
and make sure everything works as expected