How to install Drupal development environment.

I have started a series of tutorials to describe how to set up a Drupal development environment on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) LAMP server. This LAMP server can be a virtual machine over VMware server.

Session 1: Setting up the LAMP server as a virtual machine
Session 2: Additional components to the LAMP server: webmin, phpMyAdmin, NFS, PHP GD library
Session 3: Configuring the LAMP server: networking, NFS, firewall
Session 4: Drupal install

After a fresh install of Drupal 6.2, create the second user (you have already the user/1), and this user will be the user/3. So user/2 is just missing (page not found). I issued this as a bug report (http://drupal.org/node/259909) and the answer was:
"This is a known issue caused by a quirk of MySQL when dealing with auto-increment fields. Aside from the gap in the sequence it is not actually a problem."

That's fine so far, and I'm just re-publish this story here for others not reading the issue queue, but searching for the user/2

There is already the second maintenance release for Drupal 6, followed in short time. Both releases correct something only in D6. It means, D6 has introduced some new bugs and/or features with security leaks. I hope it's over now ...

I updated the site, and still waiting for the Views for D6.

For Drupal 6 there is the handy image file filter module to insert images into the content.

Update: the evolution of the module is very fast, and the features are also changing. The usability is improving, but some hints below may become misleading in time.

After the setup, you just have to upload the image file to the node as an attachment, set the orientation, and that's all. Look:

IMGFilefilter.png

I decided to upgrade my site content and design to Drupal 6. It runs now without any problem. I'm still waiting for some contributed modules like CCK and Views, but the main features are already alive!

I have set up a Drupal development environment, running as a virtual machine on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) host and VMware Server 1.0.4. It results in an virtual Ubuntu LAMP server, configured for Drupal development. Each configuration tip, PHP or database version, try-and-error game or development project can have its own "guest" environment, but your "host" environment remain clear and simple.

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The use case