How To Install Drupal

Once the web server is online and has your domain enabled, we can install Drupal.
 
 cd /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs
 wget drupal http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.15.tar.gz
 tar -zxvf drupal-6.15.tar.gz
 rm drupal-6.15.tar.gz
 cd drupal-6.15
 mv .htaccess ..;mv * ..; cd .. 
 rm -r drupal-6.15
 
Make a backup copy of default.settings.php and allow write access to it. 
Create a files directory to store files for the site and provide write access.
 
 cp /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/default/default.settings.php /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/default/settings.php
 chmod a+w /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/default/settings.php
 
 mkdir /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/all/modules
 mkdir /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/all/themes
 
 mkdir /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/default/files
 chmod a+w /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/default/files
 
If you open Drupal in a web browser you can enter the database name, user, and pass.  
After installation issue, these commands to secure your site.
 
 chmod a-w /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/default/ 
 chmod a-w /var/www/sites/drupaladmin.net/htdocs/sites/default/settings.php
 
 
Drupal requires a cronjob to be ran frequently to reindex the site.
 
  crontab -e
 45 * * * *  /usr/bin/lynx -source http://drupaladmin.net/cron.php