Install Drupal 7 from the command line... with Drush, of course

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on March 30, 2011 - 7:08am

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Given a Drupal installation (that is, drush dl drupal), Drush can fully install Drupal, even creating the database if it has permission.

drush site-install standard --account-name=admin --account-pass=[useruser_pass] --db-url=mysql://[db_user]:[db_pass]@localhost/[db_name]

Or, shorter:
drush si --db-url=mysql://[db_user]:[db_pass]@localhost/[db_name]

(The profile defaults to standard, and the account name and account pass to 'admin'.)

The site name flag is --site-name=yada

See other flags with drush help si.

A version of this which automatically sets all these values to obvious defaults will be incorporated into https://gitorious.org/agaric-scripts

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