Quercus: Drupal

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)"/>
    <forward regexp="^/" target="/index.php?q="/>
  </rewrite-dispatch>
</web-app>

1. Run

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

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