Well this morning we will go and explain how to download and install drupal, which as I have mentioned before is the CMS that I decided to use when building my sites for immigration: Opportunity Knocks and the Hebrew one.
So first thing is first and go to http://www.drupal.org and download the latest version of drupal.
1. Make sure you remember where you have saved it.
2. Now you will need to find where you installed your webserver MAMP. On my MacBook Pro, my MAMP was installed automatically in my Applications Folder.
3. Find the drupal version that you downloaded and move it the the folder Applications/MAMP/htdocs - this is the programs folder for holding files that will be visible via your web browser.
4. Now double click on the drupal file. This file is a zipped file and will automatcially unpack itself (extract itself) into this directory.
Ok well done you have so far managed to download and install a web server and turn your personal computer into your personal web server, you have managed to download drupal and have put it in your web dirctory, but now what??
Now you need to configure drupal to work properly and this is in itself a bit technical, not to technical so dont worry.
Many will tell you to go here http://drupal.org/getting-started/install, or you can read my instructions below:
1. Start your MAMP web server.
2. The program should start and open a new web browser tab/window for you. What you now need to do is create a database to work with your CMS, now if you do not know what a database is that is okay, you really don't need to know, you just need to follow the instructions to install one and make it work with drupal.
3. On the web page that MAMP opened click on the phpMyAdmin link
4. OK now it opens up the interface to the database (MySQL), and what you need to do is create a new database in the box in the middle of the page
5. Ok now you have created a Database, but hey, who can see it, that's right - you must now go and create your self a user. So if you scroll down the page you will see a link called Privileges, you should click on this link and add yourself to the list of users.
6. Next it is to give permission on the database you created to the user you created. To do this you must click on the datbase you created
7. Once you have done this you can open a new tab and type in the following http://localhost:8888/drupal-6.14/ where I have put in drupal-6.14 you should put the name of the folder in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ and then follow the instructions.
You should now have the basics installed and can follow the instructions from drupal to finish your installation, next time we will get onto configuring things.
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