What you need for the Installation of Drupal
Unlike static sites, dynamic sites need more than just a Web address. To be able to Drupal 7 install, you must have the following requirements:
- a Domain
- a Hosting package with a database: MySQL 5.0.15 and higher, PostgreSQL 8.3 and higher, or SQLite 3.x
- PHP Version 5.2.4 and higher
- a minimum of 32 Mbytes of memory, with the use of many modules tend to 64 MByte
- Drupal 7.0
- an FTP program
Download and Unzip
Drupal is Open Source Software, of the Download, as well as the use of are free of charge. Best to get the Software here. After the Download is complete, unzip the file, the as .gz, and .zip is ready.
Upload the files
After you have the Software extracted, let's go with the Installation:
- Upload the files to the Server: Open the folder named "Drupal7" and transfer all subfolders and files with your FTP program to the Server of your Provider.
Upload the files via FTP
Installation of Drupal 7
Then open your Domain address in the Browser, the installation wizard of Drupal. Any point you must fill out completely and "Save and continue" to confirm. The individual steps are below in the photo gallery illustrates.
- Select the "profile" of the standard installation. So all of the Start-up of the necessary modules are installed.
- A real language choice you have in the next field. The default language is English. You can later install the language packages that the user interface to translate in your desired language.
- Next, the establishment of the database: Enter the name of the database, the user and the password. The information you find with your Provider.
- Open the "Advanced Options". Here, you specify the location of the database. Also this Info you will find in your Domain provider. Tip: you can Use the database for multiple projects - for example, for multiple Domains with CMS, enter in the last field a prefix. Ideally, this should be to the Domain-based and end with an underscore.
- On the next screen, the Installation of the core and the modules is displayed via a progress bar. Here you need to do nothing.
- The Software is installed, you must configure the page yet. For this purpose, enter a title, a contact E-Mail address, a user name and a password. Below, you can select the country and time zone. All you can change these settings later on the finished page. You once again confirm, and the Installation of Drupal 7 is complete.
The Installation Wizard
The Installation is different for the different Drupal versions much. The procedure is independent of Browser and operating system. The only exception is a Installation on a Ubuntu Linux Server. Here it is a little more complicated. You want to a CMS for example Wordpress, without Internet on the home PC to try out, you will find here a guide.
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Without a database there is nothing. Here are all the details must be right.
Without a database there is nothing. Here are all the details must be right.
All of the page information, you can later modify on your page.
All of the page information, you can later modify on your page.
Country information and time zone setting.
Country information and time zone setting.
The Installation is finished. So is your page only once. Now you can get started: add content and change the look.
The Installation is finished. So is your page only once. Now you can get started: add content and change the look.
