OnLinux: how to install drupal on debian etch

1. create a directory /var/www/drupal/

cd /var/www/drupal/

tar -xzvf drupal-6.0-beta1.tar.gz

2. set the permissions for /var/www/drupal/sites/default and /var/www/drupal/sites/default/setting.php

chmod o+w /var/www/drupal/sites/default

chmod o+w /var/www/drupal/sites/default/setting.php

3. create a database drupal and assign/creat a user for it

mysqladmin -u root -pagnello create drupal

log into mysql and use drupal db

GRANT ALL ON drupal.* to 'agnello'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'agnello';

quit;

4. edit the following vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default ( using name based virtual hosting )

<VirtualHost *>
        # Basic setup
        ServerAdmin webmaster@test-server.com
        ServerName drupal.test-server.com
        ServerAlias drupal.test-server.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal/

# HTML documents, with indexing.
        <Directory />
        Options +Includes
        </Directory>

# CGI Handling
# ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/www/www.foo.com/cgi-bin/
# <Location /cgi-bin>
# Options +ExecCGI
# </Location>

#Logfiles
ErrorLog /var/log/test-server.com/drupla/error.log
CustomLog /var/log/test-server.com/drupal/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

restart apache 2

5. run the following link on ur browser http://drupal.test-server.com

now configure the setting use the the same user name and password for db wen asked !!!!!!!

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