{"id":304,"date":"2017-02-19T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=304"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:42:30","slug":"easily-install-drupal","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/article\/easily-install-drupal\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Easily Install Drupal in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these steps to install Drupal in cPanel \/ WHM with Softaculous:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/how-to-login-into-your-cpanel-whm-account\/a7\/\">Login into your cPanel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) Scroll down to the\u00a0<strong>Software<\/strong>\u00a0section and click on the Softaculous icon.<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0Click on the\u00a0<strong>Drupal<\/strong>\u00a0logo. This will open a screen with several options, \u00a0click on the Install link.<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0On the Install screen in the Software Setup section do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose the version you&#8217;d like to install (7 or later is preferred)<\/li>\n<li>Protocol can be left unchanged unless you have a SSL certificate installed on the domain or prefer the &#8216;www&#8217; prefix to exist for the site address<\/li>\n<li>Choose your target domain from the dropdown menu<\/li>\n<li>If you would like to have the software installed in the root of your domain, leave &#8216;In Directory&#8217; empty, otherwise input directory name relative to the domain&#8217;s folder<\/li>\n<li>Leave Database name as is unless you&#8217;d like a different name<\/li>\n<li>The CRON job field can be safely left empty unless you&#8217;d like cron to run at different times (defaults recommended)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5) In the <strong>Site Settings<\/strong> section modify Site Name as desired (can also be modified in the Drupal dashboard later)<\/p>\n<p>6) In the <strong>Database Settings<\/strong> section leave the Table Prefix information as is, unless you&#8217;d like a different prefix<\/p>\n<p>7) The <strong>Database Settings<\/strong> can be left with defaults unless you&#8217;d like a different database table prefix or sample data imported<\/p>\n<p>8) In the <strong>Admin Account<\/strong> section do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Important!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Change the administrative username to something other than &#8216;admin&#8217; to minimize the risk of someone guessing it<\/li>\n<li>Choose a strong password for Admin password, or click the Key icon to generate a random password<\/li>\n<li>Enter a working email address for the Admin email<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>9) Click the <strong>Install<\/strong> button<\/p>\n<p>10) Login address will be displayed once the install is complete.<\/p>\n<p>11) After you&#8217;ve completed the installation be sure to check out the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvedetails.com\/vendor\/1367\/Drupal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drupal vulnerabilities database<\/a>, as this will help you decide which modules are best for you to use on your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these steps to install Drupal in cPanel \/ WHM with Softaculous: 1)\u00a0Login into your cPanel. 2) Scroll down to the\u00a0Software\u00a0section and click on the Softaculous icon. 3)\u00a0Click on the\u00a0Drupal\u00a0logo. This will open a screen with several options, \u00a0click on the Install link. 4)\u00a0On the Install screen in the Software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[43],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-304","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-drupal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/304\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chemicloud.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}