CustomerCentrix

Here are a few notes about Drupal installation because I need a checklist for this sort of thing, and it might be useful for others who need to install Drupal. Before messing with Drupal, the domain name needs to be set up, a site created with directory space and mysql database created. The install.txt doc contained with the Drupal download covers most of this, so the main idea here is to just list the items and provide a few details about what is not covered there.

1. Copy Drupal files to web site.
2. Create the database
3. Load the database by running the script database/database.mysql to create all of the needed tables.
4. Connect Drupal to the database by editing the sites/default/settings.php file. Enter the database name, user and password. Also, enter the site domain name.
5. Configure Drupal by adding a /files directory on the server and a /files/pictures directory with 0777 permissions. Create the first login as admin (first login is user id 1 and assumed to be administrator of site).
6. Cron task must be added to do some of the background stuff that you don't usually think of until something doesn't work. Aggregator and search depend on it. It will look something like this: 0**** wget -O - -q http://www.customercentrix.com/cron.php
7. robots.txt is advisable although optional. This file tells search engine indexing spiders what files to look at and which to ignore.

At this point, you can move on to the more interesting parts of customizing the site. See Drupal customization.