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Installing Drupal with Media Temple 1-Click Install Pitfalls and Fixes

While Digg was down today I took a break from hacking ThemBid.com to work on setting up Drupal for a client demonstration. Following are some issues I ran up against and the fixes.

I used the 1-Click Applications to install Drupal from within my control panel

1. Installing TinyMCE
   1. Make sure that you use the 4.7.1 version
2. Installing ecommerce
   1. Use these instructions
      1. Don’t install the modules just yet, you will need this fix.
      2. You will also need the Token module (don’t forget to use the 4.7 version)
      3. I did not see where to install the Mail Subsystem. Not sure yet if this will be an issue.
3. Installing signup (to allow users to sign up for events)
   1. First install the views module
   2. Second install the event module
      1. To get the add event part to work I had to set the version of PHP to 5. With version 4 I received this issue.
   3. You will need to increase your memory limit again (I used 32MB) for PHP for the install to work properly
4. Installing workflow
   1. First install actions (not necessary but useful)
   2. Then install workflow
      
5. Getting the search module to work
   1. I had to use the checklist here. But, item 1. should be ?q=admin/modules

I hope this short article can save you the hours it took me to figure it out