Revision as of 21:19, 29 July 2008

Running Drupal 6.2 on Resin 3.1.6

Requirements

1. MySQL server
2. Java 1.5 or higher

Quick start

Follow these instructions if you would simply like to evaluate running Drupal without doing a system-wide installation. Follow the instructions below to perform a system-wide installation.

1. Download Drupal 6.2 from http://drupal.org/drupal-6.2
2. Download Resin 3.1.6 from http://www.caucho.com/download
3. Unzip Resin 3.1.6
4. Unzip Drupal and copy all files and directories to resin-3.1.6/webapps/ROOT
5. Create the Drupal database:

   mysql -u root

   mysql> CREATE DATABASE drupal;

6. Create the directory resin-3.1.6/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib
7. Download MySQL Connector/J 5.1.6 (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html)
8. Unzip MySQL Connector/J and place the mysql-connector-java-5.1.6-bin.jar in resin-3.1.6/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib
9. Create the following resin-3.1.6/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/resin-web.xml:

   <web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">

   <welcome-file-list><welcome-file>index.php</welcome-file></welcome-file-list>

   <rewrite-dispatch>

   <dispatch regexp="\.(php|gif|css|jpg|png|ico|js|html|htm|txt)"/>

   <forward regexp="^/" target="/index.php?q="/>

   </rewrite-dispatch>

   </web-app>

10. Run

    java -jar resin-3.1.6/lib/resin.jar

11. Browse to http://localhost:8080 and set up Drupal according to the online directions

Full installation

Follow these instructions if you would like to perform a permanent installation with virtual hosts. Follow the above directions for a quick start evaluation.

1. Download Drupal 6.2 from http://drupal.org/drupal-6.2
2. Download Resin 3.1.6 from http://www.caucho.com/download
3. Unzip Resin 3.1.6 in /usr/local/share
4. Copy /usr/local/share/resin-3.1.6/conf/resin.conf to /etc/resin/resin.conf
5. Edit /etc/resin/resin.conf to change the host-deploy directory:

   <host-deploy path="/var/www/hosts">

6. Create a virtual host directory for your domain:

   /var/www/hosts/drupal.example.com/webapps/ROOT

   (in this example, the domain is drupal.example.com)
7. Unzip Drupal and copy all files and directories to /var/www/hosts/drupal.example.com/webapps/ROOT
8. Create the Drupal database:

   mysql -u root

   mysql> CREATE DATABASE drupal;

9. Create the directory /var/www/hosts/drupal.example.com/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib
10. Download MySQL Connector/J 5.1.6 (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html)
11. Unzip MySQL Connector/J and place the mysql-connector-java-5.1.6-bin.jar in /var/www/hosts/drupal.example.com/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib
12. Create the following /var/www/hosts/drupal.example.com/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/resin-web.xml:

    <web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">

    <welcome-file-list><welcome-file>index.php</welcome-file></welcome-file-list>

    <rewrite-dispatch>

    <dispatch regexp="\.(php|gif|css|jpg|png|ico|js)"/>

    <forward regexp="^/" target="/index.php?q="/>

    </rewrite-dispatch>

    </web-app>

13. Run

    java -jar /usr/local/share/resin-3.1.6/lib/resin.jar -conf /etc/resin/resin.conf start

14. Browse to http://drupal.example.com:8080 and set up Drupal according to the online directions