install on windows xp
chinni12 - January 27, 2008 - 01:47
Is there a document or step-by-step instructions to install Drupal on windows XP? I tried to download and it showed tar.gz file. Is it right file for windows xp?
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downloaded drupal-6.0-rc2.tar.gz
I have downloaded and extracted drupal-6.0-rc2.tar.gz file. But it looks like it is not for windows xp. Don't really know what to do with extracted files. Appreciate your help.
Ok, are you running a
Ok, are you running a localhost?
Drupal is a very sophisticated piece of web software that most be run on either A) a web server or B) a local testing server (recommended) such as xampp.
Are you running a localhost. If you are, then extract the drupal folder into the web directory (htdocs most likely).
Then navigate to the proper url, such as http://localhost/mydrupalfolder/install.php. You must first have created a new mysql database table however. Then just run install.php and configure drupal following the steps given to you.
Good Luck,
Jon.
files
you uncompressed are mostly php scripts.
depending on the web server you're running, htdocs is a folder where Apache serves files from, and C:\inetpub\wwwroot is where IIS does the same. Also depending on your server config you may need to add a port number so your localhost may look like this;
http://localhost:8080/mydrupalfolder/install.php
on Windows systems typically IIS is run with the default port of 80 so it's used as Jon wrote it, and for Apache it's 8080, or whatever you want, as I wrote it above.