Bash Accelerated Drupal Installation
Posted: Fri 01/30/2009 by ramiroWhen developing Drupal modules or checking out modules I don't know yet, I run an instance of Drupal on my local machine. Sooner or later I feel the need to erase this installation and do a fresh install. The Drupal installation process is pretty straightforward and simple making it a good candidate for automating at least parts of it.
In the Drubuntu Drupal group I found this install script for Drupal that does not only install Drupal but also creates an operating system user, as well as apache2 and DNS configurations. A pretty useful script, but it does too much for my development needs.
I took it as a basis to create a simpler version that merely installs Drupal. In the screencast I demonstrate using this bash script that you can download here from Drupal's CVS repository.
To use it you may need to modify the server root path or set a password for the MySQL root user. Obviously you need a Bash interpreter and wget for downloading. Have fun installing Drupal even more quickly!
Using CVS is certainly an alternative to wget, maybe I'll add a third parameter to make it possible to do a CVS checkout instead a wget download.
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