Technology

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This post is to give a brief overview of the Drupal installation process on Windows. This setup works well as a test or development environment.

1. Install wamp server (from wampserver.com) Edit: The latest version of wampserver doesn't work with Drupal. See the note at the end of this post.
2. Download Drupal. You can use either Drupal core from Drupal.org or Acquia Drupal from acquia.com.

I have reinstalled my server running CentOS 5.2 and VirtualBox. In the process I have found some items that weren't documented well in the previous post VirtualBox in rc.d

I have modified the vboxcontrol script. The new script is available here.
vboxcontrol.

After setting up the script, you need to run chkconfig --add vboxcontrol

My first step after installing a new Linux server is usually to setup SSH. I have setup key based authentication a couple times, but am still getting the hang of it. If you run into any problems, see the additional explanation at the end of this post. Here are the steps for a client using Putty on Windows and a server running CentOS.

1. Run ssh-keygen -t rsa. This will create the private and public key files. Be sure to use the default file location.
2. Run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

I have been experimenting with Linux servers for a while now.  My latest experiment was at using VirtualBox to run virtual servers.  I used a helpful tutorial from howtoforge.com to guide me through the setup.  After setting up VirtualBox on CentOS and installing Fedora in a VM, I wanted the Fedora VM to automatically start up and shut down when the CentOS host started up and shut down.