Core VM

By webmestre , 30 December 2025
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1. Introduction

Here is described some notes on the process of building the Virtual Machine that hosts the main components.
That VM is initially based on Ubuntu 24.04 TLS, and host the main components, which are:

  • Drupal 11, natively installed at the OS
  • Dockers whith:
    • Portainer to provide a GUI management of the containers
    • Node-RED instances for: (one node-red instance for each)
      • Data migration from former/legacy apps
      • NetBox for IPAM management
      • Synchronization via APIs with other components:
      • Custom & extended features:
        • Self-provisioning script for configurations beyond ACS/TR069 capabilities.
        • Extended API endpoints beyond the provided with the above-mentioned tools

As for the hardware requirements, initially the VM is configured with 16Gb RAM, 32Gb Disk & 8 cores

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2. Preparation

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a) System Update

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt autoremove
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b) apache2

sudo apt install apache2 -y sudo systemctl enable apache2 && sudo systemctl start apache2 sudo systemctl status apache2
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c) mariadb

sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client -y 
sudo systemctl start mariadb && sudo systemctl enable mariadb 
sudo systemctl status mariadb
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i.- Secure mysql/mariadb

sudo mysql_secure_installation

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d) php

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-dev php-bcmath php-intl php-soap php-zip php-curl php-mbstring php-mysql php-gd php-xml -y 
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt-get install libgd3 
sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade libgd3
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e) verify php

php -v

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3. Composer

cd /var/www/html 
mkdir commons 
chmod a+rw commons p
hp -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'c8b085408188070d5f52bcfe4ecfbee5f727afa458b2573b8eaaf77b3419b0bf2768dc67c86944da1544f06fa544fd47') { echo 'Installer verified'.PHP_EOL; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'.PHP_EOL; unlink('composer-setup.php'); exit(1); }" 
php composer-setup.php php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');" 
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
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a) drush

composer require drush/drush
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4. drupal

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a) Download latest 

(drupal 11 as for Dec 2025)

cd /var/www/html 
sudo mkdir commons 
sudo chmod a+w commons 
composer create-project drupal/recommended-project:^11 commons
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5. Create Database

create database commons11 charset utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci; 
create user commons11@localhost identified by 'password'; 
grant all privileges on commons11.* to commons11@localhost; 
flush privileges;
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6. Install drupall

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a) Initial composer

cd /var/www/html 
sudo mkdir commons 
chmod myuser:myuser commons 
composer create-project drupal/recommended-project:^11 commons
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b) Apache virtualhost for drupal

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/commons.guifi.net.conf 
Alias /commons /var/www/commons/web 
<Directory /var/www/commons/web>
         AllowOverride all 
</Directory> 
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin myemail@domain.tld
    DocumentRoot /var/www/commons/web/
    ServerName commons.guifi.net
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteOptions inherit
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/commons.guifi.net.log combined 
</VirtualHost> 
sudo a2ensite commons.guifi.net

(backup vm w/prereqs)

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c) Site install (drush)

vendor/bin/drush site:install

(backup vm post site:install)

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d) Install core modules

cd /var/www/html/commons 
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable locale jsonapi rest vendor/bin/drush pm:enable language 
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable content_translation config_translation 
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable migrate_drupal migrate_drupal_ui migrate 
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable telephone vendor/bin/drush pm:enable datetime_range
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable workspaces workspaces_ui vendor/bin/drush pm:enable content_moderation workflows 
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable syslog 
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable settings_tray vendor/bin/drush pm:enable responsive_image
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable navigation vendor/bin/drush pm:enable media_library media 
vendor/bin/drush pm:enable contact content_moderation inline_form_errors layout_builder layout_discovery phpass

(backup vm post enable core modules)

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e) Contributed modules

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    i.- domain

    1. domain
    2. domain_config_pages
    3. domain_access 
    4. domain_access_logo 
    5. domain_alias 
    6. domain_config 
    7. domain_config_ui 
    8. domain_content 
    9. domain_source
  2. Book

composer require drupal/domain:"2.0.0-beta8" composer require drupal/domain_access_logo:"^2.0" 'drupal/dom'drupal/domain_config_pages:^1.0' 'drupal/domain_path_redirect:^1.8' 'drupal/domain_simple_sitemap:^3.0@RC' vendor/bin/drush pm:enable domain domain_access domain_access_logo domain_alias domain_config domain_config_ui domain_content domain_source

eof

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