Drupal

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Drupal is an open source Content Management System.

[edit] Manually installing Drupal

Though fairly straight forward and pretty much inline with the Installation Guide, the only real thing to watch out for is that when you run the install script and reach the Database configuration page you must enter the hostname of the Blacknight database server. You can find such for a database you've created by:

Log into The Blacknight Control Panel
Click upon the Databases link.
Click upon the name of the database you created for Drupal
Look at the Internal hostname field e.g. you should see something like "mysql245int.cp.blacknight.com"

[edit] Setting up cron (Linux Plans Only)

For housekeeping tasks Drupal needs cron.php to be run regularly (say once an hour).

Blacknight users can set up a cron job for this by:

Log into Blacknight Control Panel
Click upon the link to "Webspace"
Click upon the link to "Cron Management"
Click upon the button "Add new job"
In the text input box labelled "Command" enter:
```
wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.mysite.net/cron.php
```
where www.mysite.net/cron.php is the location of the cron.php in the main directory of your Drupal installation.
Click upon "Next>>"
Select the "Hourly" radio button and click upon "Next>>"
Leave the frequency as default and then click upon "Finish"

Setting Up Cronjobs - Flash Tutorial / Screencast