1. Once signed into Plesk Navigate to "Featured Applications" find Drupal and click "Install."
2. Now you will need to enter the details for the Admin user as well as the Database, note the Database will be created automatically using the provided details. Once done take note of the details and click Install, once done you will be able to access drupal via your website.
Download the latest version of Drupal from the following link and upload the files to the server using the Plesk hosting control panel or your preferred method of FTP. Please note that currently our servers only support up to Drupal version 9.5.3 but support for later versions is coming.
Once the files have been uploaded, you are now ready to run the installer, do this by accessing your site in a new tab in your browser, Select your preferred language and click on Save and Continue.
You will then be asked which Installation profile to choose, select Standard, which already comes with some pre-configured features and click on Save and Continue.
This step is quite important so pay attention. In this step you will need to specify the database details, if you haven't created a database yet, I would suggest that you do this first. Assuming that you have created the database, you will then need to make sure that you configure the following fields as seen in the example below. Once all the relevant fields have been filled in, click on Save and Continue and it should install the profile.
Database type: MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, or equivalent. Database name: yourdatabase, The database name that you created. Database Username: yourdatabasename, Remember that the database username will be the same as the database name. Database Password: yourdatabasepassword, The database password that you chose.
Select Advanced Options Database Host: localhost Database port: 3306 Database prefix: Can be left blank
This step will require you to fill in the following fields. Site name : Enter your site name here eg www.yourdomainame.co.za Site e-mail address: This will be the email address, to which all details will be sent to.
Site maintenance account
Username : Enter your own username.
E-mail address: specify an email address that will be associated with this user.
Password: ensure that you use a strong password, if not sure use this online password generator [Password Generator]
Confirm password : Confirm the password entered above.
Default country: Select your country
Default time zone : Select the timezone that applies to you.
Once you have filled in all the fields, click on Save and Continue.
The Installation should now be complete and you will be automatically redirected to the Drupal backend.
