Tips for tuning your Bitnami Drupal EC2 instance VPS server

 

Bitnami Drupal HowTO

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Document root

/home/bitnami/apps/drupal/htdocs

The issue with the startpage

Simply run this script:

$ sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/drupal/updateip --appurl /

as desiribed in the Bitnami Drupal Wiki

The article described at the other Wiki:

sudo nano /opt/bitnami/apps/drupal/conf/drupal.conf  

will give you 2 startpages:

http://YourDomain/

and

http://YourDomain/drupal/

Only the last one works correclty.

Restart Apache on Bitnami Drupal

First find the folder with the script:

sudo find / -iname 'ctlscript.sh'  

Then go to the folder

cd /opt/bitnami/  

Then issue the command

./ctlscript.sh restart apache

Documentation on how to restart Apache