Drupal Installation

Drupal is a Content Management Framework. In fact, one of the most popular ones. Few months back, I had tried to install it, but I couldn’t find any Windows specific installers. Everywhere, it seemed like Drupal was made for linux. So I had abandoned it then. But after installing a few other frameworks like Wordpress, Joomla, Trac etc. I got a fair picture of how to install a php based content management framework. Thought I'll share that information to anyone who is struggling with, or thinking about Drupal installation.

 

These steps are meant for the Windows XP platform, and may slightly change for other operating systems.  Drupal is a php based system, so the ideal combination of webserver-database is Apache-MySQL. I decided to use WAMP, which is Windows-Apache-MySQL-Php. The steps are:

1.       Install a Web Server

I decided to use WAMPSERVER as the webserver. You can download it from their website. Download and install it. This installs the Apache webserver, MySQL database and php in the system.

2.       A Wampserver icon comes on the system tray. Click on the icon and select 'Start All Services'. Your webserver is now up and running.

3.       In browser, open the site http://localhost/phpadmin

4.       Create a database "mysite" in mysql, from the phpadmin page.

5.       Create a user (admin or username) and give full privileges, also from the phpadmin page.

6.       Extract the drupal installation files to a directory inside the folder www (eg: www/mysite).

7.       Restart the Wampserver.

8.       Open browser and enter the path http://localhost/mysite/install.php. An installation page is shown where you need to enter details like database name, username, password, email etc. Enter the required information and Save. The installation is done automatically.

9.       In browser, open the site http://localhost/mysite. You can see the website is ready. A dashboard is seen above, which can be used to make additional modifications and enhancements.

Hope this helps. You can also read one of my earlier posts about installing Joomla and Wordpress.

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