Wednesday, 10 October 2007

Drupal installation

This tutorial should be able to help all users, who need help with installing the Drupal 5 core on the webserver in few minutes. It is very simple operation, so I hope, no problem will appear after reading following instruction list. Let's proceed from the very beginning:

  1. Download the latest version of Drupal core from official Drupal website and extract it on your harddrive. Some countries have its own localized version of the core. It's up to you what you are giving way to. Localized versions have the same functionality. They are only translated to the specified language.
  2. Run your FTP client, log in your FTP account and copy all extracted files in the root folder. Your root folders name is usually “www” or “htdocs”. If you are not sure about this, ask your hosting company.
  3. If you were successful in copying, log in your MySQL manager (PHPMyAdmin or any), create new database and remember the name you used. It's not necessary to choose collation, Drupal use UTF-8 automaticly.
  4. Now, open your web browser and visit URL www.example.com/install.php. Instead of example.com use your domain name.
  5. Drupal installation page will come in view. Read the instructions and fill the form properly. Database type is usually mysql.
  6. Enter database name (you should remember it from step 3), database username and password (your hosting company provides certainly these informations to you). Under collapsible “Advanced options” choice are some optional fields.
  7. Database host is mandatory, however, is defaultly set on “localhost”. Check this value with informations provided by your hosting company to you.
  8. Database port - let it blank, if you are not sure about it. When your database service runs on another port, this field is the way to set it. Table prefix is useful in case of more drupal installations in one database. You can distinguish more Drupals with this prefix.
  9. Submit the form. The “Installation complete” window should display. Then proceed to the frontpage.
  10. We can also include first user (admin) creating in the installation process.

I hope this tutorial will help you solve all problems with installation. In event of problems use comments.

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