Arizona Quickstart

Demonstration/starter Drupal distribution and installation profile that packages various features consistent with community best practices and University of Arizona brand strategy.

A Complete Customized Drupal

AZ Quickstart is a complete customized version of the popular Drupal content management system, not an add-on to an existing Drupal-based web site. Previously, to start a new Drupal site you would prepare a web server and database, then install the core software following the instructions in its Installing Drupal document and the installation chapter in its user guide. This would produce a minimally functional web site with no content, which you could then customize by adding themes and modules to fit it to your needs. Increasingly, however, you can install Drupal distributions, which not only contain the core, but also complete sets of additions to make it almost immediately useful for a particular purpose, such as an online storefront. AZ Quickstart is the distribution that provides many of the features specific to the University of Arizona, and rather than an empty site, can include some demonstration content (which can nevertheless be turned off instantly).

How to Contribute

See our contributing document for detailed instructions on how to contribute including:

• What you'll need to get started
• How to create issues and pull requests
• How to submit a pull request
• Local development

Where to Install Your Quickstart Site

The university's Campus Web Services group provides ready-to-use sites based on Quickstart for anyone who isn't comfortable with web development or system administration. Behind the scenes, a web hosting service called Pantheon hosts these sites, so in cases where people require more control and flexibility in a Quickstart site than these can provide, there are ways they can also host it independently on Pantheon, and many important university sites are already there. However, there are many other options for hosting web sites based on Arizona Quickstart; the only caveat is that anyone following one of these has to maintain their responsibility for keeping the system and web site secure and up-to-date. A generic hosting option that has been around for many years is known as LAMP: the combination of the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP scripting language, so it is worth giving a more extensive example of using this, but many variations are common (for example, substituting Nginx for the Apache web server software).

System Requirements

Arizona Quickstart's system requirements are almost identical to Drupal's own requirements, in particular the requirements for Drupal 9. Some additional things that need emphasized or checked are:

• Make sure the system has enough memory: even if the running site consumes little, updates and installations are memory-intensive.
• Check that PHP's configuration allows it to use the memory (see the memory requirements section).
• Re-check that the required PHP extensions are added: on a recent system the usual packaging mechanism should suffice to add them (such as apt on Debian or Ubuntu versions of Linux).
• Check that the Apache configuration enables mod_rewrite, and the module letting it work with PHP.
• Check the user and group of the running web server: in many Debian-derived Linux systems these will be www-data, but not on all (this information is needed for setting file and directory permissions later).
• Install and configure the software as a normal (non-root) user with the ability to sudo when elevated privileges are needed; add this user to the same group that the web server uses (so you would see something like www-data:x:33:normaluser in the /etc/group file).
• A recent version of Composer is a necessity, not an option — remove any previously installed but stale versions, and follow the https://getcomposer.org/download/ instructions to install it, or if upgrading is possible, try the command sudo -H composer self-update --2

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