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What I learned today

• Copying files one directory up and removing them
• Drush site-install

What I knew

• Setting up sites with Dreamhost (domain, hosting, database hostname and creation)
• Drush (somewhat)
• Drupal

My steps

1. Register domain (with Dreamhost)
2. Host domain (with Dreamhost)
3. Create hostname (with Dreamhost)
4. Create database (with Dreamhost)
   1. Username
   2. Password
   3. Database name
5. SSH to home directory
6. Drush dl
7. Copy files from drupal to the home directory (
8. Remove the drupal subfolder
9. drush site-install –db-url=mysql://{username}:{password}@{hostname}{database}
10. Login with credentials on the new site

Links

How can I copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a different directory using terminal?
site-install - Specifically the “Install using the specified DB params.”