By stevelast on

I am not a techie "coder" but am able to do stuff using the regular Drupal interfaces. I have set up a few Drupal sites before using the Softaculous installer which my ISP provides in Cpanel.

I have been asked to do one for a small social organisation which has been allowed to "borrow" some space on a larger organisation's server, but they don't supply any support. so I can access it using Filezilla as "mysite" at mysite.mainsite.org . The remote site root shows that our host organisation's ("mainsite") technical people have given it folders for
.cpanel
.cphorde
.htpasswds
access-logs
etc
mail
public_ftp
public_html
tmp
var
www

and there are some small log files files. The Cpanel here doesn't contain any installers like Softaculous.
Is there a "one-click" installer I can use in this situation? I have used the Bitnami stack to create local installations. Can that be used in this situation? I am reluctant to just "experiment" as it's not my own site that I'm working on.

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bander2 commented

Is there a "one-click" installer I can use in this situation?

I don't think so. You need to figure out which of those directories is the web root (probably either public_html or www) and upload the Drupal files there:

https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install/download#ftp

Then follow the rest of the instructions under the installation guide:

https://www.drupal.org/documentation/install

- Brendan

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stevelast commented

OK thank you. I have it in the right place now and started the installation.php but ran into a problem which is that "the server does not support PDO" so I have to go to them anyway.
Thanks
Steve