Introduction
One of the many available One-Click Apps that we have is Drupal. Drupal is free, open source software that can be used by individuals or groups of users — even those lacking technical skills — to easily create and manage many types of Web sites. The application includes a content management platform and a development framework.
Prerequisites
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Orbit created with Drupal image
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Running Orbit
Creating Your Orbit
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To create your application, you must create a Photon. You can do so by selecting the Photon tab after selecting ‘Create Orbit’
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Once there, you will see a list of available photons that you can create. Select one and it will bring you to a detailed page
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Scroll down to the details and you can start selecting options for your photon as well as setting up credentials.
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Once everything is filled in, just press Create and you can move on to the next step
SSH into Orbit
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First we need to check some details on our orbit by first navigating to the “My Orbits” tab.
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Once there, click on the Orbit you want to connect to and check for three things:
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IP Address
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Running Status
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Source Image(Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Fedora
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Once you have confirmed that your Orbit is running and you have the other information. Open up your console.
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Now you can SSH into your Orbit by running.
ssh image@address
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IP Address: We got this from the detail page, in this case it is “216.200.116.60”
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Image: We got this from the source image in the details page. It should be one of the following: ubuntu, debian, fedora, centos
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Note: A full command for this example would be: “ssh ubuntu@216.200.116.60”
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Starting Drupal
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Once you are SSH’d into the server you will see the following. You can start the setup process by opening the IP address with port 8080 in a web browser.
All passwords are generated when an orbit is first created and stored in a .secrets file, unless the welcome screen says otherwise. To access it, run the following command:
cat .secrets
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You can start Drupal’s setup by going to the IP Address shown above followed by port 8080. You should see a screen like the following:
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All setup options are pretty straight forward until you get to the database configuration. You need to set the following settings:
- Database Type: PostgreSQL
- Database Name: postgres
- Database username: postgres
- Database password: password
- Advanced Options: Host – postgres
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After the database configuration, you can continue setting up your website however you want and once its complete, you should see the following