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About Drush: Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal installations. It can update Drupal’s core files, update modules and execute sql queries just to name a few. It is a must have utility to manage one or many Drupal installations. This guide will only touch on a few of the … Continue reading “Drush: Command Line Utility for Drupal on FreeBSD”
Part IV: Drupal 7 & SSL: The next step in the process is to use an ssl certificate to protect the connections to secure pages. Obtaining a certificate is left to the reader to fulfill. The author recommends obtaining an ssl certificate from a certificate authority such as verisign, godaddy, geotrust, etc.
Part III – Drupal 7: In Part I and II, Apache, PHP, MySQL were installed and configured. In Part III, Drupal 7 configuration is the focus. This information can be derived from Drupal 7 installation documentation. The reader is encouraged to review the documentation at www.drupal.org.
Part I – Installing Apache24 and PHP5: An Apache, PHP, MySQL and Drupal stack on FreeBSD is not difficult to install and configure. In this case, the Drupal installation will contain only one website and will not employ the use of virtual hosts. So let’s get started installing Apache24 and PHP5.
Managing MySQL55 with phpMyAdmin: In Part 1 of this article, Apache24 Server and PHP5 were installed and configured. The next step towards having a functional FAMP (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Stack is to install mysql and phpmyadmin.
Apache ModSecurity: ModSecurity performs real-time web application monitoring, logging and access control. It can also reduce Apache’s attack surface by narrowing down HTTP features the server is willing to accept.
