This has been tested in Rebecca and Rosa.

Open the terminal in your $HOME directory. The $HOME directory is typically at /home/yourname. You can easily get to it from anywhere in the terminal just by typing cd and pressing enter.

1. Enter the following:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

You may get a message that you need to install php5-cli using apt-get. If needed do it by typing:

Some context

So why might you, if you are operating a cPanel-based VPS for your own Drupal sites, want to consider switching from suPHP to DSO ?

"Your Drupal site got hacked ? Well it's entirely your own fault ! You should always do your updates ! You've only got yourself to blame (and don't dare blame the security holes in that older Drupal code) !!!"

Basics

Debugging of Drupal was never easy, until you know the right tools and how to use them.

There are plenty of alternative debugging methods using some popular PHP libraries XDebug, XHProf, NuSphere PhpED, etc. and also most of the IDE have already built-in step-by-step debugger.

This information enhances the documentation for the Drupal Memcache module. The Drupal configuration on this page is for Drupal 6, while the other information below is Drupal version agnostic. For Drupal 7 sites on Ubuntu 12.04 you may want to see this post.

This page provides a summary of the command line instructions for installing Drupal on a typical UNIX/Linux web server. Every step contains a link to more detailed installation instructions where you also can find information about installing Drupal on other systems.

References to Unix-like (*nix) commands in documentation or forum posts can be intimidating if you're not used to them, but sometimes "command line" is necessary for administering your system or fixing a problem.

Learning some of these *nix commands can help you be more productive, as well as give you insight into what your hosting control panel or GUI FTP client does.