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You can delete /kansas/my_cute_cat/hello.txt and put the Drupal site there.

Use drush to grab Drupal

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Replace the 'public' directory of your capistrano drupal development directory with a drupal install.

Code Block
bash> cd <your capistrano dev directory>
bash> drush dl drupal-7.23
bash> rm -r public
bash> mv drupal-7.23 public

Use drush to install Drupal

Install drupal using your new database and user

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Panel

Note the user #1 user name and password returned from this last step!

Select and enable modules

Grab and enable some modules that will be using on this site

Code Block
bash> drush dl admin_menu views devel
bash> drush en admin_menu views devel

Make the installation profile

Create an installation profile for this site (This works for Drupal 7 sites. For Drupal 6 sites there is a manual process /admin/settings/profiler_builder .)

Code Block
bash> drush dl profiler_builder
bash> drush en profiler_builder
bash> drush distro my_cute_cat --untar
bash>

The installation profile contains the drush make file, and a list of what modules are enabled, and possibly more. We use one of these to create sites when we deploy on a server for the first time.