Setting up Drupal
How to install Drupal for your account
First you need to download Drupal from their website, https://www.drupal.org/download. After you've received a zip file, you have to extract it using your file manager (Windows: use right-click and select "extract all"; OSX: double-click the zip, it automatically extracts; Linux: right-click the file, and select "extract here"), this gives you a directory named 'drupal-x.x.x', where the x is the downloaded version of Drupal.
Next, you have to move the contents of the drupal-x.x.x directory to your webroot directory on our servers. Most often this will be the www directory. Your webroot can be accessed via SFTP. If you need further instructions, you can find detailed instructions on: Accessing your files.
Besides files, we also need a database to install Drupal on. If you haven't created a new database for the purpose of this installation, you can do this through UCC. Instruction on how to do this are available on Using MySQL. If you haven't created a database user yet, or don't know the password, you can also find more information there.
- Database name: If you haven't created a MySQL or PostgreSQL database/user on UCC, then you'll have to create it here. The default database is: "username_username".
- Database username: The name you used during the creation of your database account.
- Database password: The password you used during the creation of your database account.
- Database host: This is
mysql.ulyssis.org. You will need to click on Advanced options to set this option.
After that you can proceed in the wizard where you can fill in some last few details. By then the wizard will do the rest except for asking some basic questions about the site and, congratulations, you have installed Drupal.
Setting up multiple instances of Drupal
If you want to have multiple instances of a Drupal site there are two options. The multiple instances can either share drupal code or be fully seperate.
For fully seperate installs you can simply create a (sub)folder to store another copy of the drupal code in. You can then access it either from your default domain or have us attach another domain to it for you, more info about that on Adding domain names
If you wish for multiple websites to share the same codebase it is easiest to use multiple domains. More information about how to set this up in your drupal is available in the drupal documentation: https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install/multi-site. As soon as you have made your preperations you can contact us about hooking up the domain name, more info about that on Adding domain names
