Quercus: linode

Running Quercus hosted by linode.com

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1. Obtain an account from linode.com
2. Log in to the account and create an Ubuntu image
3. Log into your linode and install the following packages:

   apt-get install ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard sun-java6-jdk mysql-server postfix iptables

4. Download Resin Open Source [1]

   wget http://www.caucho.com/download/resin-3.1.6.tar.gz

5. Untar Resin into /usr/local/share
6. Create a link from /usr/local/share/resin to the Resin directory
7. Edit /usr/local/share/resin/conf/resin.conf to change the host-deploy directory:

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

8. Create a host directory: /var/www/hosts/<host-name>
9. Download Drupal:

   wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-6.2.tar.gz

10. Untar Drupal in /var/www/hosts/<host-name>
11. Create a database for Drupal in MySQL

    mysql -u root

    > CREATE DATABASE drupal;

12. Start Resin:

    java -jar /usr/local/share/resin/lib/resin.jar start
    

# Browse to your host and configure Drupal as directed.