[documentation] [bug] HOWTO: Install Drupal using cPanel

[pulsifer]

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/49791
Post a follow up: 
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/49791

 Project:      Documentation
 Version:      <none>
 Component:    Installation
 Category:     bug reports
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  sgwyrdd
 Updated by:   pulsifer
 Status:       active

One way to get the drupal files into public_html using cPanel File
Manager is to uncompress the .tar.gz on your PC and rezip it without
the "drupal..." prefix on all of the file names.  See
http://drupal.org/node/52602 and http://drupal.org/node/52607


Note that the cPanel File Manager will also expand .zip files.  It
might be easier for most PC people to recompress the installation file
into a zip rather than a targz.


Note that IMHO it would be easier for someone to just do this once and
post this file at drupal.org, rather than trying to explain how to do
it.




pulsifer



Previous comments:
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Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:54:10 +0000 : sgwyrdd

The 'Easy way to install drupal with the cPanel control panel'
instructions at http://drupal.org/node/25310 omit the step of defining
the base_url.


The third bullet point, which currently reads:


Change the setting in settings.php: $db_url =
"mysql://levavie_u1:234@localhost/levavie_db1";


should perhaps read:


Change the database setting in settings.php: $db_url =
"mysql://levavie_u1:234@localhost/levavie_db1";
and set $base_url to match the address to your web site: $base_url =
"http://www.example.com";


You'll see from http://drupal.org/node/49544 that this omission seems
to be causing problems.




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Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:44:45 +0000 : Heine

Yes, this page needs a major rewrite. I'll do it as promised [1]. Thanks
for the reminder.
[1] http://drupal.org/node/48075#comment-90594




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Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:30:30 +0000 : Heine

'Major' rewrite completed: http://drupal.org/node/25310. I welcome
comments & critique.


I believe the current comments on the page can be deleted as well.




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Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:35:10 +0000 : Heine

Just changing the title




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Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:55:11 +0000 : sepeck

looks good




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Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:56:00 +0000 : webchick

Hey, Heine! Thanks a lot for re-writing that page.


There was one comment someone made in this issue over here:
http://drupal.org/node/52607#comment-79014 -- I guess the fact that the
.tar.gz extracts to a folder is giving CPanel users some trouble when
they want to install to just the root directory. Maybe you could put in
something like what greggles mentions below to help people in this
situation? I would update this myself, but I don't have CPanel to test
on and want to make sure the instructions are 100% clear/accurate since
this is likely a page that gets a lot of attention from newbies.


Thanks a lot. :)