How to install Drupal Commons

Submitted by jp2020(426)

31 August, 2010 - 09:19

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Hi,

I have read other user's posts about having problems installing Drupal commons. Is there a video or documentation on how to install it in our computer?

Then perhaps followed by how to have a local environment and then post it to the web. I think many are stuck somewhere in between.

This might be helpful, specially if they are getting started.

Thanks,

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mike.stefanello1 year 36 weeks ago

Have you ever installed

Have you ever installed Drupal before?

What operating system are you running?

Do you plan to have Commons on the web so everyone can view your site?

jp20201 year 36 weeks ago

On the web

Hi Mike,

I used the Acquia Drupal Stack to install D6 install. So I have been pocking around with Drupal, installing modules, etc.

Using Windows Vista on my laptop.

I was planning to have a development environment, and thought my local machine would be the most appropriate, hope to have a staging environment later on, but for not wanted to also have the work hosted somewhere, so that I can see how it behaves in the hosted environment live. So, I downloaded the code to my PC, now what is the next step. Sorry for this basic question, it is just that I would prefer to do it the correct way.

We intend to have many simultaneous concurrent users, will drupal commons perform good in a high traffic site? I am a bit concerned since it has many modules. At what amount of concurrent users should I start to be very careful, and what do I do once I reach a high amount of traffic?

Thanks,

mike.stefanello1 year 36 weeks ago

In all honesty, I don't have

In all honesty, I don't have much experience with the Acquia DAMP installer - but I know it works great. I personally run Linux and setting up a LAMP stack takes a minute or two. I believe with the DAMP installer you can import custom codebases and distributions. Do you see any option for that? Perhaps someone else could ring in here and help out.

To have Commons run on a live site, you'll obviously need to register a domain, and get some hosting (perhaps a VPS).

We don't have detailed data about performance in large environments yet. I can say this site is pretty loaded with users and traffic and hasn't slowed down a bit.

Please let me know if I can be of more help.

wolfflow1 year 36 weeks ago

Hi @JP2020 for your info, I

Hi @JP2020 for your info, I have already a test install of Drupal Commons on a VPS with all modules activated and some custom ones, I have not run any performance tests yet, but it works fair good.

There is no significant traffic on my site, just me and some seldom anonymous users, maybe later on if I have performed some customer customs installs with more traffic i would consider to add the BOOST module.