Package Installs

Install Sun Java Runtime environment

cscf-adm@drupal$

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”

cscf-adm@drupal$

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo apt-get update

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

cscf-adm@drupal$ java -version

java version "1.6.0_20"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode)

cscf-adm@drupal$

I've read a suggestion that the ubuntu-restricted-extras package

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Install the "essentials" metapackage and curl

cscf-adm@drupal$

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo aptitude install build-essential

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo aptitude install curl

cscf-adm@drupal$

Most of this was done as part of the original install however

Apache

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-threaded-dev

PHP5

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo apt-get install php5 php5-dev php-pear php5-gd

MySQL

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server phpmyadmin

Postfix (email)

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo apt-get install postfix

cscf-adm@drupal$

Tuning

To enable clean urls in Drupal, we need to enable mod_rewrite.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo a2enmod rewrite

Let's also disable 2 Apache modules we won't use.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo a2dismod cgi

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo a2dismod autoindex

Increase some rather restrictive limits.

PHP memory limit.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i 's/memory_limit = .*/memory_limit = 256/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Upload sizes

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i 's/upload_max_filesize = .*/upload_max_filesize = 128M/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Post sizes

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i 's/post_max_size = .*/post_max_size = 128M/' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

cscf-adm@drupal$

Have Drupal's FileField and Upload module show an upload progress bar.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo pecl install uploadprogress

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i '/; extension_dir directive above/ a\ extension=uploadprogress.so' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Remove Apache's server signature you see under each page generated by Apache (like the directory pages, 404's, ...).

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i 's/ServerSignature On/ServerSignature Off/' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Allow Apache to use Drupals .htaccess file.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i 's/AllowOverride None/AllowOverride All/' /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Tricks

Enable APC's opcode caching, at this time must use apc-beta see http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16078. and http://constantshift.com/installing-apc-for-php-5-3/.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo pecl install apc-beta

cscf-adm@drupal$ to accept default no answer

cscf-adm@drupal$ to accept default no answer

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i '/; default extension directory./ a\ \n extension=apc.so \n apc.enabled=1 \n apc.shm_size=30 \n' /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Enable mod_deflate and mod_expires.
  mod_deflate will zip your CSS files etc. and save you some bandwith.
  mod_expires will make the caching on static files work.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo a2enmod deflate

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo a2enmod expires

Configure mod_deflate to compress javascript and css files.
Drupal does not do this out of the box.

cscf-adm@drupal$ sudo sed -i 's/DEFLATE text\/html text\/plain text\/xml/DEFLATE text\/html text\/plain text\/xml text\/css text\/javascript application\/x-javascript/' /etc/apache2/mods-available/deflate.conf

Enabling query caching in MySQL.

sudo sed -i '/query_cache_limit.*/ a\query_cache_type\t= 1' /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Restart It

apache2 is not part of new startup setup.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

mysql is part of new startup setup.

force-reload mysql