Installing LAMP Stack with Drupal

System Information

• OS : Amazon Linux 2023
• Storage : 10 GB
• Package manager : DNF
• PHP : v8.2
• MariaDB : v10.5
• Apache : v2.4.58

LAMP Installation

resource : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/ug/ec2-lamp-amazon-linux-2023.html

• Installing & Start LAMP

    sudo dnf update -y
  
    sudo dnf install -y httpd wget php-fpm php-mysqli php-json php php-devel php-xml php-gd
  
    sudo systemctl start httpd
    sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
  
    sudo dnf install mariadb105-server
    sudo systemctl start mariadb
    sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
  

DB setup for Drupal

    # production safety
    sudo mysql_secure_installation

• Login & Create a New DB for our Drupal Project

    mysql -u root -p
    create database drupal_db;
  

• Create a New user & Set the Access rights

    CREATE USER db_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'Durpal@123#';
  
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal_db.* TO db_user@localhost;
  
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  
    exit
  

Install Composer (Global)

resource : https://getcomposer.org/download/

• Execute this to install composer

    echo '#!/bin/sh
  
    EXPECTED_CHECKSUM="$(php -r '\''copy("https://composer.github.io/installer.sig", "php://stdout");'\'')"
    php -r "copy('"'"'https://getcomposer.org/installer'"'"', '"'"'composer-setup.php'"'"');"
    ACTUAL_CHECKSUM="$(php -r "echo hash_file('"'"'sha384'"'"', '"'"'composer-setup.php'"'"');")"
  
    if [ "$EXPECTED_CHECKSUM" != "$ACTUAL_CHECKSUM" ]
    then
        >&2 echo '"'"'ERROR: Invalid installer checksum'"'"'
        rm composer-setup.php
        exit 1
    fi
  
    php composer-setup.php --2.2 --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer --quiet
    RESULT=$?
    rm composer-setup.php
    exit $RESULT' > compose.sh
  
  
  
    #### Install It ####
  
    chmod +x compose.sh
  
    ./compose.sh
  

• Check the Installation :

    composer --version
  

Install Drush (Global)

resource : https://drupalize.me/tutorial/install-drush-using-composer

⚠️ Note : Recommended to use drush as dev dependency (check the above resource link)

• Download the drush & Add to path

    wget -O drush.phar https://github.com/drush-ops/drush-launcher/releases/latest/download/drush.phar
  
    chmod +x drush.phar
  
    sudo mv drush.phar /usr/local/bin/drush
  

Install Drupal using composer

resource :

1 - https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/using-composer/manage-dependencies

2 - https://www.atlantic.net/dedicated-server-hosting/how-to-install-drupal-on-fedora/

• download drupal

    composer create-project drupal/recommended-project drupal
  

• Move to the Web server root folder

    mv drupal /var/www/html/drupal
  

• Configuring settings

    cd /var/www/html/drupal/web/sites/default/
  
    cp default.settings.php settings.php
  
    chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/drupal/
  
    chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t /var/www/html/drupal/
  
    chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/drupal/web/sites
  

• making sure to Add Drush with Composer

    cd "/var/www/html/drupal" && composer require --dev drush/drush
  

Configuring HTTPD Server

fix resource : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18853066/404-not-found-the-requested-url-was-not-found-on-this-server

• tweak the conf

    nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
  
    #change the root 
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/drupal/web/
  
    (or)
  
    #change /drupal as the folder
    Alias /drupal /var/www/html/drupal/web/
  

• Fix for clean URLS on the conf

    <Directory var/www/html/drupal>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
  

• Restart it

   sudo systemctl restart httpd
  

• Your Drupal URL

    echo "http://$(curl -s ipaddress.sh)/drupal"
  

Complete the installation using the GUI Setup. Refer credentials.txt for sample data

Error Fix:

Fix Drupal Links and GUI : Click here

Updating Drupal using composer

Updating Drupal : Click here