For most general use cases, we recommend the OIT Web Hosting turnkey install option of Drupal 10: when requesting a new Web Hosting account, you can mark the Drupal Express option on the request form and your account will be pre-loaded with a ready-to-use version of Drupal 10 complete with the official Georgia Tech web theme and page layout system.
The following steps should guide you in getting a Drupal installation set up in an OIT Web Hosting account.
Aquia Dev Desktop is being phased out and will no longer be supported after June of 2021. The following instructions are left here until then to assist those already using the product, but there is no point in installing Dev Desktop at this point. Instead, take a look at Lando to see if it will work for your needs.
Note: If you are running in a shared hosting environment, like OIT Web Hosting, then you are not likely to get many if any general permission errors, as each website runs under its own hosting account in these environments. Thus, it is nearly impossible to mess up file and directory ownership in these environments. However, it is worth checking the file and directory permissions, as they are often changeable, and if the owner-write permission is removed from a file or directory then the web server will not be able to modify that f
Aquia Dev Desktop is being phased out and will no longer be supported after June of 2021. The following instructions are left here until then to assist those already using the product, but there is no point in installing Dev Desktop at this point. Instead, take a look at Lando to see if it will work for your needs.
With the Acquia Dev Desktop (ADD) tool, you can easily and quickly set up a local development environment for Drupal on your computer.
This process allows you to set up your Mac as a faux-server for local development.
Before you take a Georgia Tech Drupal site live, it is a good idea to go through the following checklist of best practices to make sure your site is secure and streamlined for production use. This checklist is designed for Drupal 7 sites on OIT's Web Hosting, but will generally apply to other environments and later versions of Drupal as well.
Helpful Tip: The admin interface can be accessed via the black admin toolbar at the top of any page when logged in with administrator rights.
A development copy of Drupal on your local computer lets you design and build a site with a few fewer hassles. It is an excellent place to do testing and code development, but does not support collaboration very well. For collaborating with stakeholders, you may want to have both a development site on your local computer and a test site on a regular internet connected web hosting solution (e.g. OIT Web Hosting or a departmentally run server).
This section contains guides to help you with installing a new copy of Drupal. Information on updating and upgrading existing Drupal sites can be found elsewhere in the handbook.
