Diogo Oliveira de Melo

Get Drupal installed in 10 very easy steps.

After doing some Drupal installations I decided to create a small HowTo about it.

What I’m assuming:

• You are using Linux;
• Apache is installed and running;
• You have a MySQL database clean and ready to be used;
• You want to install Drupal into http://localhost/drupal and your Apache is reading the files from /var/www/ (if you’re installing Drupal somewhere else and/or Apache is reading the files from another place, just replace that information during this tutorial).

Ready to get started? Here we go…

1. download Drupal from http://drupal.org/project/drupal
2. unpack Drupal and move the files to /var/www/drupal. Don’t forget to move .htaccess too.
3. cd /var/www/projectname/sites/default
4. mkdir files
5. chmod -c 777 files
6. cp default.settings.php settings.php
7. vim settings.php (or any text editor)
8. Insert your database information according to the line that starts like “$db_url = ‘mysql://” . Drupal will use this information to connect to the database.
9. If Apache is running and /var/www/ corresponds to http://localhost/ then access http://localhost/drupal/install.php
10. Proceed according to Drupal’s instructions.

That’s it. Your new Drupal site is at http://localhost/drupal

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