I recently had to install Drupal on Sourceforge. The docs on Sourceforge are a bit limitted (or I didn't find the right information). Fortunately there is a valuable "3rd party" tutorial available. But there are some things he left out. So I want to fill the gaps ...

To bring the drupal software to the project's web space one should use his ssh shell login and the scp command.

# scp drupal-5.2.tar.gz \
  sf:/home/groups/m/my/myprj/htdocs/

(sf is an alias for shell.sourceforge.net)

To ease the things a little bit I prepared the drupal tar ball and populated the sites/ directory, prepared the settings.php and included the theme and some modules.

Now it's time to login to shell.sourceforge.net and untar the drupal dist. I put all the files into the root htdocs/ folder and removed the drupal/ folder.

The files/ and tmp/ folder for drupal need to be created by hand!

# mkdir /tmp/persistent/myprj/files
# mkdir /tmp/persistent/myprj/tmp
# chmod 0777 mkdir /tmp/persistent/myprj/files
# chmod 0777 mkdir /tmp/persistent/myprj/tmp

Reminding all the information from the original tutorial and the hints described here it's really simple to install drupal in this environment.

Now we can continue writing the software! ;-)

PS: TTLO was a firefox 0.x plugin called "Things they left out" ...