How do I make my site a Drupal site?

If you already have an existing site setup at May First/People Link, you should create a new hosting order for your Drupal installation. Then, you can more easily migrate your existing site to your new Drupal site.

If you are starting from scratch, you can enable Drupal by following these directions:

• Secure shell to your primary server.

• Run the command:

  mf-drupalize
  

You will be prompted to create a database and database user (be sure to record the names of the database, database user, and database password).

When you are done you will be prompted to open a web browser to complete the installation.

How to I remove a Drupal installation?

We do not have an automated way to remove a Drupal installation.

You can do it manually by following these steps.

• Change into your web directory
• Remove the following files and directories:

  .htaccess
  cron.drupal.php
  cron.php
  includes
  index.drupal.php
  index.php
  install.drupal.php
  install.php
  misc
  modules
  profiles
  scripts
  sites
  themes
  update.drupal.php
  update.php
  xmlrpc.drupal.php
  xmlrpc.php
  

  • Please post a ticket to have your database dropped for you.

Notes for MFPL administrators

You can no longer run mf-drupalize as the root user.

Instead, first create the database by running mf-mysql-create (as root). Then:

su <user-that-owns-web-site-to-be-created> -
mf-drupalize

Press n when prompted to create the database.