By cschults on

I'm used to installing Drupal on Linux machines, but I have a project that requires Windows. Fortunately, for me, Apache, MySQL and PHP complete the technology stack. Though I'm not sure of their versions or how they were installed (this information is forthcoming).

I've read some of the documentation and forum/issue posts. I've seen a number of instructions mentioning Windows installers and XAMPP/WAMP packages. As I understand it, this doesn't apply to my case as Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed, right? So, do I just download Drupal and install like I normally would on Linux? Anything specific to Windows that I need to be aware of? Note: I plan on installing Drupal 6 due to the contributed modules required for the project.

Thanks in advance.

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nevets commented

You should know the versions of mySQL and PHP to make sure they meet the needs of Drupal 6.

Also, Apache would need to be configured to handle .php files.

Things to watch for
PHP is not generally configured to send email by default so you would have to configure it.
And cron does not exist, there are alternative approaches.