How To: Set up a development site

You can get a copy of the Drupal site and modules from SVN and a sample database and files to be able to run your own development copy of nabuur.

Requirements

• Apache (do we need to specify version?). You will need mod_rewrite.
• with PHP (version 5.2 or higher)
• MySQL (need to make sure mysqldump version compatible)

Configuring Apache

At the minimum you will want a standard Drupal virtual host set up with mod_rewrite on, AllowOverride? ALL, and which php flags - memory size for example.

Code

The code can be checked out of SVN anonymously. The url of the repository is  http://svn.nabuurtest.com/svn/nabuur. You'll best one to check out a developers copy is branches/theme/drupal-6, which include most testing changes and the developer modules, or maybe branches/kester/drupal-6. Or download the nightly tarball

> cd [DOCROOT] // On linux systems mostly /var/www or /var/www/htdocs

> svn checkout \
    --username anonymous --password anonymous \
    http://svn.nabuurtest.com/svn/nabuur/drupal-6

> ln -s drupal-6/drupal drupal

> vim drupal-6/sites/default/.ht_settings.php   // edit the database settings here

The content of .ht_settings.php is:

<?php
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
$db_prefix = '';

Note that drupal core and the sites directory are both at the top level with a symlink to sites in drupal.

Database

Make a user and database for Drupal to use.  Helpful how to if your not sure about doing this

The database details aren't checked into svn either. They are expected to be in a file called .ht_config.php in sites/default. Copy ht_config.example.php and change the last lines to have the correct details for you mysql database.

The latest sample of the database in this gzipped file. Download this, ungzip it and put it into the database that you made.

> gunzip nabuur-dev.nightly.mysql.gz
> mysql -u user_name -puser_password database_name < nabuur-dev.nightly.mysql

The user 1 (super user) has the username: admin and the password: password. Note on Sanitizing the database

Files

You don't actually need this, but without it you have no images. There is a small sample tarball of a files directory. Unpack it in the drupal root directory and symlink it there.

Note: for the moment this is missing a lot of the 'furniture' files for the site that are not referenced in the database.

> tar -zx -C the_directory_where_you_want_the_code/drupal -f nabuur-dev.files.tar.gz

Start using the site

Point your browser at the virtual host name that you used above. Pop it in your  hosts file if it doesn't exist. And you can start browsing.

You can log in as the user 1, the superuser, with the username: admin and password: password

Drupal 5 nabuur.com site

If you are interested in the code and the data for the Drupal 5 site you can use the Drupal 5 nabuur.com developer installation and files.

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