It's a little pain to install drupal from curl due to all the different redirects the install script makes. You also need to read and write cookies at exact moments. However: I have made a curl script which will install drupal from the command line :) Note: Only tested with drupal-6.x, php5 and the php curl extension.
As a site note before doing this, you should really consider using the
drush site-install command!
This was tested on drupal-6.20 with PHP 5.3. Druapl 7 needs to have
Javascript enabled as far as I can see. And therefor will not install
from curl! You should also note that correct files for settings.php
and the file folder needs to be set in order to make this work
(otherwise we will get errors and curl will not compleate!)
First we add a curl class.
<?php
// class found on php.net
// http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php
class mycurl {
protected $_useragent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1';
protected $_url;
protected $_followlocation;
protected $_timeout;
protected $_maxRedirects;
protected $_cookieFileLocation = './cookie.txt';
protected $_post;
protected $_postFields;
protected $_referer ="http://www.google.com";
protected $_session;
protected $_webpage;
protected $_includeHeader;
protected $_noBody;
protected $_status;
protected $_binaryTransfer;
public $authentication = 0;
public $auth_name = '';
public $auth_pass = '';
public function useAuth($use){
$this->authentication = 0;
if($use == true) $this->authentication = 1;
}
public function setName($name){
$this->auth_name = $name;
}
public function setPass($pass){
$this->auth_pass = $pass;
}
public function __construct($url,$followlocation = true,$timeOut = 30,$maxRedirecs = 4,$binaryTransfer = false,$includeHeader = true,$noBody = false)
{
$this->_url = $url;
$this->_followlocation = $followlocation;
$this->_timeout = $timeOut;
$this->_maxRedirects = $maxRedirecs;
$this->_noBody = $noBody;
$this->_includeHeader = $includeHeader;
$this->_binaryTransfer = $binaryTransfer;
$this->_cookieFileLocation = dirname(__FILE__).'/cookie.txt';
}
public function setReferer($referer){
$this->_referer = $referer;
}
public function setCookiFileLocation($path)
{
$this->_cookieFileLocation = $path;
}
public function setPost ($postFields)
{
$this->_post = true;
$this->_postFields = $postFields;
}
public function setUserAgent($userAgent)
{
$this->_useragent = $userAgent;
}
public function createCurl($url = 'nul')
{
if($url != 'nul'){
$this->_url = $url;
}
$s = curl_init();
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_URL,$this->_url);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Expect:'));
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,$this->_timeout);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,$this->_maxRedirects);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,$this->_followlocation);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,$this->_cookieFileLocation);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,$this->_cookieFileLocation);
if($this->authentication == 1){
curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->auth_name.':'.$this->auth_pass);
}
if($this->_post)
{
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$this->_postFields);
}
if($this->_includeHeader)
{
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_HEADER,true);
}
if($this->_noBody)
{
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_NOBODY,true);
}
/*
if($this->_binary)
{
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,true);
}
*/
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,$this->_useragent);
curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_REFERER,$this->_referer);
$this->_webpage = curl_exec($s);
$this->_status = curl_getinfo($s,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($s);
}
public function getHttpStatus()
{
return $this->_status;
}
public function __tostring(){
return $this->_webpage;
}
}
And now we create the script with the curl class.
<?php
include_once "curl.inc";
// your site
$site_url = 'http://drupal';
// profile
$profile = 'default';
// locale
$locale = 'en';
// database
$db_path = 'drupal';
// database user
$db_user = 'root';
// database pass
$db_pass = 'password';
// database host
$db_host = 'localhost';
// name of site
$site_name = 'site_name';
// site email
$site_mail = 'site_mail@site.com';
// admin account name
$account_name = 'admin';
// admin account email
$account_mail = 'admin@admin.dk';
// admin account pass
$account_pass = 'admin1234';
// date time zone
$date_default_timezone = '-39600';
// use clean url.
$clean_url = '1';
// update status module
$update_status_module = '1';
// end of settings
// create a url for curling db settings
$url_str = "db_path=$db_path&";
$url_str.= "db_user=$db_user&";
$url_str.= "db_pass=$db_pass&";
$url_str.= "db_host=$db_host&";
$url_str.= "db_prefix=&";
$url_str.= "db_port=&";
$url_str.= "op=Save and continue" . "&";
$url_str.= "form_id=install_settings_form";
$url_str = urlencode($url_str);
$url = "$site_url/install.php?profile=$profile";
$curl = new mycurl($url, true);
$curl->createCurl();
echo $curl;
$url = "$site_url/install.php?profile=$profile&locale=$locale";
$curl = new mycurl($url, true);
$curl->setPost($url_str);
$curl->createCurl();
echo $curl;
$url = "$site_url/install.php?profile=$profile&locale=$locale&op=do_nojs&id=1";
$curl = new mycurl($url, true);
$curl->setPost($url_str);
$curl->createCurl();
echo $curl;
$url = "$site_url/install.php?profile=$profile&locale=$locale&op=finished&id=1";
$curl = new mycurl($url, true);
$curl->setPost($url_str);
$curl->createCurl();
echo $curl;
// set settings for loading database with site base settings
$url_str = "site_name=$site_name&";
$url_str.= "site_mail=$site_mail&";
$url_str.= "account[name]=$account_name&";
$url_str.= "account[mail]=$account_mail&";
$url_str.= "account[pass][pass1]=$account_pass&";
$url_str.= "account[pass][pass2]=$account_pass&";
$url_str.= "date_default_timezone=$date_default_timezone&";
$url_str.= "clean_url=$clean_url&";
$url_str.= "form_id=install_configure_form&";
$url_str.= "update_status_module[1]=$update_status_module";
$url = "$site_url/install.php?profile=default&locale=en";
$curl = new mycurl($url, true);
$curl->setPost($url_str);
$curl->createCurl();
echo $curl;
die();
?>
— Install Drupal with cURL
Out of curiosity, why is browser installation not an option? Drupal is a web framework so presumably you will need to have web access to it at some point. Why not do the standard installation with the browser? – Doug Harris – 2010-05-11T16:46:00.860
I don't what "an AWS instance" is, but you're aware that you can (should) browse to the public URL of the website-to-be? (Like anyone who goes to that URL will be able to continue the installation.) – Arjan – 2009-10-07T19:53:15.693
1Amazon Web Services. – Nissan Fan – 2009-10-07T22:22:32.290
Hmmm, I figured it couldn't be that... Then I just don't understand the question. :-) – Arjan – 2009-10-08T07:56:36.893