Here is a good tutorial for it: http://drupal.org/node/1023428.
Things to remember are:
- make sure you use the right root name to login, that might not be admin
- if your login failed, make sure the clean the flood table.
Installing drupal7 / wordpress with ubuntu server – clean install
part 1: installing Ubuntu:
part 2: installing apache mysql and php (including libraries):
part 3: installing drupal 7:
script file:
Resolving drupal ftp error when installing modules
When installing a new drupal site under Linux, you may get this annoying error when trying to install a module:
So what? install an FTP server? NO.
This is clearly a permission error, however, setting folder permissions to 777 (or 666 😉 ) just won’t do it.
The thing is, the user log into Apache needs to be the owner of this folder.
So, to remedy this, use:chown -RÂ www-data /var/www/dp7/sites/default
assuming you installed under /var/www/ which is the default in ubuntu.