Installing Drupal using SSH & Drush

This tutorial walks through installing Drush then using Drush to install Drupal.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Drupal 7
• Drush

[sweetdix]

Thank you for this video, it was very helpful.

When I got to this point of the tutorial

"cd drush"

"drush"

I got the message "-bash: drush: command not found" so I used the following steps instead and it worked.

chmod +x /opt/drush/drush

ln -s /opt/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush

(I had downloaded mine into /opt.)

[LevelTenDrupalLabs]

@sweetdix good tip. You might have to do a chmod depending on how your permissions are setup.

[jpw]

Oh--so you're saying that you have used Drush to achieve the sync I mentioned below? I'll be looking into that.

[LevelTenDrupalLabs]

@jpw You don't have to use Drush. We used to do it with a shell script - but now it can all be done with Drush.

[LevelTenDrupalLabs]

That would be a good video. I will put that on the list. We used to use a shell script to do a git pull, database sync and user file rsync. Now all of that is built into Drush. It is awesome.

[amazonburt]

I had the mis-fortune to meet Acquia sales exec Tim Bertrand recently . I work for Amazon (AWS) and we were sponsoring an event Tim Bertrand , with all his egotistical and narcissistic defects radiating, . There were 3 of us and we literally couldn't believe what we were witnessing: Tim Bertrand grew irritated with 2 separate prospects and after their 2nd or 3rd question each said to them: " If you can't understand what i'm saying then it's probably best that you pass on Acquia."

[jpw]

Also, to follow up what I just posted, seeing a tutorial on Drush for common backup procedures would be handy. Namely, how you could automate copying your sites directory, using cPanel's backup function, and even "quick backup" in Drupal's Backup and Migrate module.

Have a simple command for restore, of course, would be icing on the cake.

Thanks.

[jpw]

Thanks for your clear, methodical explanation in the video.

I still use the FTP/GUI approach to installation, since I find it easier to document in Evernote for future reference and failure analysis . . . but that's another story.

In your conclusion, you mention the possibility of Drush for syncing deployments from development to staging to live--that would be very useful to see in a similar tutorial.