How to install Drupal 8.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Drupal 8.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04

Drupal is a popular open source Content Management System (CMS), which was released under GPL which is written in PHP language. It is used as a back-end framework for most of the websites and also used for knowledge management system.

Prerequisites

Install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB, php7)
In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user )

Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-gd php7.0-mbstring php7.0  php7.0-common  php7.0-xmlrpc php7.0-soap  
php7.0-xml php7.0-intl  php7.0-cli  php7.0-ldap php7.0-zip php7.0-readline php7.0-imap php7.0-tidy php7.0-recode php7.0-sq php7.0-intl

Download a Drupal CMS package as follows

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-8.5.3.tar.gz
--2018-05-29 14:42:44--  https://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-8.5.3.tar.gz
Resolving ftp.drupal.org (ftp.drupal.org)... 151.101.193.175, 151.101.129.175, 151.101.65.175, ...
Connecting to ftp.drupal.org (ftp.drupal.org)|151.101.193.175|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 15527015 (15M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ drupal-8.5.3.tar.gz’ 

drupal-8.5.3.tar.gz     100%[==============================> ]  14.81M   168KB/s    in 20s     

2018-05-29 14:43:04 (768 KB/s) - ‘ drupal-8.5.3.tar.gz’  saved [15527015/15527015]

The downloaded package is a tar file, so extract the package as follows

root@linuxhelp1:~# tar -zxvf drupal-8.5.3.tar.gz 
drupal-8.5.3/
drupal-8.5.3/.csslintrc
drupal-8.5.3/.editorconfig
drupal-8.5.3/.eslintignore
drupal-8.5.3/.eslintrc.json
drupal-8.5.3/.gitattributes
.
.
drupal-8.5.3/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/StandaloneExtensionManager.php
drupal-8.5.3/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/Version.php
drupal-8.5.3/vendor/zendframework/zend-feed/src/Writer/Writer.php
drupal-8.5.3/vendor/autoload.php
drupal-8.5.3/vendor/.htaccess
drupal-8.5.3/vendor/web.config
drupal-8.5.3/LICENSE.txt

Then move the extracted file into the following path

root@linuxhelp1:~# mv drupal-8.5.3 /var/www/

And then switch to the following directory

root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /var/www/

Change the ownership and permission of the file

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chown -R www-data.www-data drupal-8.5.3
root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# chmod -R 775 drupal-8.5.3

Create a new virtualhost configuration for accessing the Drupal CMS application

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/drupal.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal-8.5.3/

< Directory /var/www/drupal-8.5.3/> 
AllowOverride All
allow from all
< /Directory> 

< /VirtualHost> 

Enable the site access

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2ensite drupal.conf
Enabling site drupal.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

Now we have to disable the default access

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2

Now we have to enable the rewrite module

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2

Then we need to restart the apache2 service

root@linuxhelp1:/var/www# systemctl restart apache2

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://< ipaddress or domain name

Choose the language to use the Drupal CMS

Select the installation profile

Configure the Database detail

You can see the progress of the installation

Configure the site information

Homepage of Drupal CMS application

with this, the method to install Drupal 8.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.