How to create RRR from scratch¶

Setup Drupal website environment¶

This will depend on whether you are developing the website on your local machine or on a remote server.

Local machine (tested on MacBook air)¶

• 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)
• Navigate to your XAMMP/htdocs/ folder

Remote server (tested on a Linux machine running Ubuntu)¶

• ssh to remote machine
• setup http web server (e.g. apache)
• edit web server configuration files
• go to your /var/www folder

Install software, using for example, apt-get install¶

• Install drush - command line utility to manage Drupal websites
• Install git - command line utility to manage version control

Create new database¶

• run the following command
  

   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)

Install drupal and use git to track its repository

• run the following command
  

  drush dl drupal --package-handler=git_drupalorg
  

• Rename the folder with the name of your site site_name

Configure Drupal¶

• Point a browser to localhost/site_name
• Start the Drupal configuration

Verify requirements¶

• Enable php GD extension
  

  apt-get install php5-gd (enable php gd extension)
  /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
  

• Create writable files directory
  

  mkdir site_name/sites/default/files
  chmod ga+w site_name/sites/default/files
  

• Create writable settings file
  

  cp site_name/sites/default/default.settings.php site_name/sites/default/settings.php
  chmod ga+w site_name/sites/default/settings.php
  

Configure site

• Revoke public and group write permissions to avoid security issues
  

  chmod ga-w site_name/sites/default/settings.php
  chmod ga-w site_name/sites/default/
  

At this point, you have a clean Drupal website that can be accessed locally at http://host/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
  

Notes

• The module simpletest requires php-curl. To install run the following command
  

  apt-get install php5-curl