How to create RRR from scratch¶

Setup local Drupal website environment¶

• Install XAMMP - web stack including database and web server apache
  • Download relevant version from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html#849
  • Run the installer
  • Open XAMPP manager application and start all the servers (MySQL, Apache and ProFTPD)

• Install drush - command line utility to manage Drupal websites
• Install git - command line utility to manage version control
• Install drupal and use git to track its repository
  • Navigate to your XAMMP/htdocs/ folder
  • Run
    

    drush dl drupal --package-handler=git_drupalorg
    

  • Rename the folder with the name of your site site_name

• Create new database
  • Run
    

    mysqladmin -u root -p create dbname
    

    
    where dbname is the name of the database and root is the user
  • set privileges following instructions in the INSTALL.dbtype file in the Drupal folder (where dbtype is the kind of database used - e.g. MySQL)

• Create new site
  • Point a browser to localhost/site_name
  • Follow the installation instructions
    At this point, you have a clean drupal website that can be accessed locally at http://localhost/site_name

Setup remote Drupal website environment.
These instructions are very similar to the above, with the exception that instead of hosting the website on a local machine, it will be hosted on a remote server. * ssh to the remote server * Install drush - command line utility to manage Drupal websites * Install git - command line utility to manage version control * Install drupal and use git to track its repository

• Navigate to your /var/www folder * Run
  

  drush dl drupal
  

  * Rename the folder with the name of your site site_name

• Create new database
  • Run
    

    mysqladmin -u root -p create dbname
    

    
    where dbname is the name of the database and root is the user
  • set privileges following instructions in the INSTALL.dbtype file in the Drupal folder (where dbtype is the kind of database used - e.g. MySQL)

• Create new site
  • Point a browser to hostname/site_name
  • Follow the installation instructions
    At this point, you have a clean drupal website that can be accessed locally at http://hostname/site_name

Obtain RRR modules and settings

• Clone the RR repository to a folder of your choice by running the command
  

  hg clone https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/hg/rr-repo
  

• Copy the features module rr-repo/sites/all/modules/experiments_list to the modules folder of your website XAMPP/htdocs/site_name/sites/all/modules
• Enable modules by running
  

  drush pm-enable experiments_list