Wednesday 21 January 2015

DRUPAL INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION ON WAMP

DRUPAL 7.34 CONFIGURATION ON WAMP

Pre-requirements: Wamp must be installed with default settings

1. Download drupal from following url

2. Place the downloaded .zip folder and unzip it in following location.
C:\WAMP\WWW\


3. Open localhost in your browser and navigate to "phpmyadmin" to create database for drupal.

4. Navigate to Databases tab in phpmyadmin interface and create a db named "drupaldb"

5. Open localhost and navigate to "drupal-7.34" or whatever version you have downloaded

6. Drupal installation/configuration step 1. 
    Select "Standard" and press "Save and continue"

7. Default "English" language selected. Press "Save and continue"

8. Select "MySQL...." then "drupaldb" as db name and "root" as username and leave the password field blank or db password which you set in phpmyadmin then press "Save and continue"

it will take some time to create db.

9. Db creation will end up with an error. ignore and pass it on using "the error page" link


10. Select your "Site name" as you want. Select "Site e-mail address" then "Username" then "E-mail address" then "Password" then select "Country"


11. It will end up with a link to your website as following. click the link to visit your created site.

12. Finally Drupal comes up with an interface of a dummy site with your created user login. now you can edit or manage your website.

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