Yet Another D8 Beta Attempt

The point of this is to do a GUI driven install on a Fusion VM

  1. Update the VM Linked Clone
  2. Install Apache 2 but in Debian 7 Wheezy the Rewrite Module is not enabled so do that using a2enmod rewrite, which edits the Apache 2 config file in the process so the Rewrite Module is loaded through subsequent reboots. Then add
    <Directory />
    AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    to the apache2.conf file so that the rewrite rules in the .htaccess are applied.

Not sure where this one got to, but its safe to say it was not a completed success!

Digital Ocean Success

After a week of frustration at Drupal 8 Beta failing to install on the Raspberry Pi and Raspian after a couple of initial successes I decided, sat in the Fox with a very good pint of Phoenix Red Ale (that is actually a very pale straw colour and totally delicious), to have a go at installing it on a Digital Ocean Debian 7 32 bit Droplet. Despite the delays due to beer-driven typos, the Digital Ocean web page guide that I have been following worked perfectly! First time in about 45 mins.
Caveat: I haven’t checked below the home page and may need to refer to Drupal Needs Mod_Rewrite in Apache2

So the inescapable conclusion is that something must have changed in Raspbian that makes it Drupal 8 Beta unfriendly? If it passes the CIBA test I’ll try a stable release of Drupal 7 on Raspbian to see what happens. Or I won’t and will continue to invest 1 cent per hour to get to know this version and see if I can skip a generation from D6 to D8. They are making a lot of noise about ease of upgrade, but we’ll see.