Installation

This README assumes that you have install a configured your server with a working Apache/Nginx, APC, Memcached, PHP 5.6 or 7.0 and Varnish 3.x (optional). The stack should be optimized to run a Drupal site.

If you want to try out Ding2 you can download the latest release. The ding2-7.x-[version].tar.gz file contain a full Drupal installation including Drupal Core, third party modules and Ding2 code needed to run the site.

Build instructions

The reset of this document explains how to download Drupal and patch the core to run a Ding2 based site.

Dependencies

Drupal 7.56 - latest stable version of Drupal Core that ding2 have been tested on and the last stable release when this was written.
Drush 6.1.0 - latest release when this was written. See its README for installation instructions.

Drupal

Go into your web-root (from now on named DRUPAL) and execute this drush command to download a fresh copy of Drupal version 7.56. If you omit the version number the newest version of Drupal will be downloaded.

  ~$ drush dl drupal-7.56
  ~$ mv drupal-7.56/* .
  ~$ mv drupal-7.56/.* .
  ~$ rm -r drupal-7.56

Patches

You need to apply a set of patches to Drupal core to run the installation and the site after the installation. To apply the patch go into your Drupal root path and execute the commands below.

This patch fixes a problem with recursive menu rebuilds.

  ~$ wget -qO- http://drupal.org/files/issues/menu-get-item-rebuild-1232346-45.patch | patch -p1

This patch fixes issue with permissions and translation of role names.

  ~$ wget -qO- http://drupal.org/files/issues/translate_role_names-2205581-1.patch | patch -p1

This patch ensure that communication with web-services that runs OpenSSL v1.0.x or newer works.

  ~$ wget -qO- http://drupal.org/files/ssl-socket-transports-1879970-13.patch | patch -p1

This patch fixes menu item types shown in the frontend.

  ~$ wget -qO- https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/programatically_added-1079628-29-d7.patch | patch -p1

Optional, but recommended patches

Ensures that Ajax errors only are displayed when not in readystate 4. So when the user presses enter to perform a search before auto-complete Ajax is call is completed an error will not be displayed.

  ~$ wget -qO- http://www.drupal.org/files/issues/autocomplete-1232416-205-7x.patch | patch -p1

Fixes the problem with scrolls when dragging items within tables in the backend.

  ~$ wget -qO- http://www.drupal.org/files/issues/drupal-tabledrag-scroll-2843240-36.patch | patch -p1

Modification to Drupal core's robots.txt that disallows gatewayf urls. So if you're using this module, apply this patch too.

  patch -p1 < profiles/ding2/patches/drupal_core.robots.txt.ding2.patch

Build Ding2 installation profile

Ding2 comes in the form of a Drupal installation profile and the first step is to build that profile. So go into your Drupal installations profiles folder.

  ~$ cd DRUPAL/profiles

Clone the ding2 repository from http://github.com/ding2/ding2.

  ~$ git clone git@github.com:ding2/ding2.git ding2

Production

Now that you have cloned the installation profile you need to run the build process using drush make. It will download all the modules and the theme from the different repositories at http://github.com/ding2

  ~$ cd DRUPAL/profiles/ding2
  ~$ drush make --no-core --contrib-destination=. ding2.make

Development

If you want a developer version with working copies of the Git repositories, run this command instead. It is because drush automatically deletes .git folders after it has cloned the repositories and by adding --working-copy, it will not delete these.

  ~$ drush make --no-core --working-copy --contrib-destination=. ding2.make

Site installation

Go to the url for your site, run the ding2 installation profile and fill out all the questions.

If you use Docker you can also start a container with database server for an already installed site using the latest version of the Ding2 master branch:

   ~$ docker run -e MYSQL_USER=db -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=db -e MYSQL_DATABASE=db -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root -p 3306:3306 -d ding2/ding2-mysql:master

In this case you should insert the following in your settings.php file:

$databases = array(
  'default' => array(
    'default' => array(
      'driver' => 'mysql',
      'database' => 'db',
      'username' => 'db',
      'password' => 'db',
      'host' => 'db',
      'prefix' => '',
    ),
  ),
);

Username/password for logging into the site is admin/admin.

Alternative installation method

If you are using an deployment system you may not want to patch Drupal core manually in a production environment.

  ~$ git clone git@github.com:ding2/ding2.git ding2
  ~$ drush make --working-copy --contrib-destination=profiles/ding2 ding2/drupal.make .
  ~$ rm -rf ding2

Post installation

After you have finished the installation there are some performance optimization that you should put into your settings.php file.

Drupal cache

This ensures that caching is enforced and that it can not be disabled in the administration interface.

  $conf['cache'] = 1;
  $conf['block_cache'] = 1;
  $conf['preprocess_css'] = 1;
  $conf['preprocess_js'] = 1;

  // Ensures that form data is not moved out of the database. It's important to
  // keep this in non-volatile memory (e.g. the database).
  $conf['cache_class_cache_form'] = 'DrupalDatabaseCache';

  // Ensure fast tracks for files not found.
  drupal_fast_404();

Theme development

The base theme for the installation is DDBasic and is located within themes/ddbasic.

The JavaScript and stylesheet files for the files are processed orchestracted by Gulp. To work with these aspects of the installation you must have Node.js, Gulp and a number of packages installed.

Install gulp

Install Node.js if it is not already available on your platform.

Install Gulp and other packages:

  ~$ cd DRUPAL/profiles/ding2/themes/ddbasic
  ~$ npm install

Process files

Gulp can watch your source files so they are processed on every change:

  ~$ cd DRUPAL/profiles/ding2/themes/ddbasic
  ~$ gulp watch

Note that developers changing the source JavaScript and SCSS files are also responsible for changing the processed files in their commits.

Varnish

This project assumes that you are using Varnish as a revers proxy and the project comes with a specially design VCL file, so that authenticated library users can be served cached pages (ding_varnish). It also allows Varnish to have paths purged when content is edited (varnish and expire modules).

The other varnish configurations (not listed here) are added by ding_base feature with the strong arm module.

  // Tell Drupal it's behind a proxy.
  $conf['reverse_proxy'] = TRUE;

  // Tell Drupal what addresses the proxy server(s) use.
  $conf['reverse_proxy_addresses'] = array('127.0.0.1');

  // Bypass Drupal bootstrap for anonymous users so that Drupal sets max-age < 0.
  $conf['page_cache_invoke_hooks'] = FALSE;

  // Set varnish configuration.
  $conf['varnish_control_key'] = 'THE KEY';
  $conf['varnish_socket_timeout'] = 500;

  // Set varnish server IP's sperated by spaces
  $conf['varnish-control-terminal'] = 'IP:6082 IP:6082';

If you do not use varnish, you should disable varnish, exipre and ding_varnish modules as they may give you problems.

APC

This optimization assumes that you have APC installed on your server.

More information on the way

Memcache

This optimization assumes that you have memcached installed on your server. Alternatively you can use redis as a key/value store, but it will not give you advantages as the more advanced stuff that redis as is not used by Drupal. So from a performance point it's more what you are use to setup.

  $conf += array(
    'memcache_extension' => 'Memcache',
    'show_memcache_statistics' => 0,
    'memcache_persistent' => TRUE,
    'memcache_stampede_protection' => TRUE,
    'memcache_stampede_semaphore' => 15,
    'memcache_stampede_wait_time' => 5,
    'memcache_stampede_wait_limit' => 3,
    'memcache_key_prefix' => YOUR_SITE_NAME,
  );

  $conf['cache_backends'][] = 'profiles/ding2/modules/contrib/memcache/memcache.inc';
  $conf['cache_default_class'] = 'MemCacheDrupal';

  // Configure cache servers.
  $conf['memcache_servers'] = array(
    '127.0.0.1:11211' => 'default',
  );
  $conf['memcache_bins'] = array(
    'cache' => 'default',
  );

WAYF - NemID

The ding_wayf module that is used to connect to WAYF services through SimpleSAMLphp requires that the providers (alma and openruth) set a special hash value as default password togehter with the social security number from WAYF.

This is done in settings.php by setting.

  $conf['wayf_hash'] = "HASH_VALUE";

SSL Proxy

It is recommended that you run the site behind an https end-point proxy and with varnish.

  Client -> Nginx -> Varnish -> Apache

Nginx

The installation profile contains an example configuration (example-nginx.conf) for nginx that works as an SSL Proxy.

Varnish

The installation profile also contains a Vanish configuration file (ding2.vcl), which is created to match the ding_varnish module's communication with varnish about which pages to cache for users (even logged in users).

The configuration file also limits which server are authenticated/allowed to be upstream proxy for Varnish. This is to ensure that sensitive information is not forwarded to an un-secure proxy as until the SSL proxy the information is not encrypted.

Apache

Apache do not have the SSL module enabled, so it will not set the "X-Forwarded-Proto" header from the SSL proxy and Drupal will not be able to detect that it's behind a SSL Proxy. So you have to set the HTTPS flag in your vhost configuration file as shown below.

 SetEnvIf X-Forwarded-Proto https HTTPS=on

mcravtov/ding2

Installation

Build instructions

Dependencies

Drupal

Patches

Build Ding2 installation profile

Production

Development

Site installation

Alternative installation method

Post installation

Drupal cache

Theme development

Install gulp

Process files

Varnish

APC

Memcache

WAYF - NemID

SSL Proxy

Nginx

Varnish

Apache