CMS 1 - W8

Installing D8 on a webhosting

Goals

of the week

Briefing Project P.E.
Setup working site (locally or hosted)
Designing & implementing your content model
based on the briefing

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

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

1 Create DB

On CPanel use MySQL Management
Create a new DB
Add a user
- save all the information

2. Upload the code

Upload the code to your webhost

Download the latest code from drupal.org
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.

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

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

$databases['default']['default'] = [
  'database' => 'dbname',
  'username' => 'dbuser',
  'password' => 'dbpass',
  'prefix' => '',
  'host' => 'mysql',
  'port' => '',
  'namespace' => 'Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Driver\\mysql',
  'driver' => 'mysql',
];

4. Run Drupal site installer

Visit your site ip/domain
If everything went right, the site should load install.php
- If not: panic! (see next slide)
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

By next week

Make sure you:

Have a working project (site)
- Local or hosted
Have set up your content-model
- Added content-types & some content
Have a good idea of all the project requirements
Think about the additions you could make to your site