By CelticDaddio on

I am trying to set up a test server using xampp and drupal 5.3 on a WinXP machine. The installation of xampp easy enough. But I can't seem to figure out how to configure it for drupal and how to install drupal. I have found several sites that describe how to do this, but they haven't been too helpful. For example, the all say to put drupal in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal, whcih I did. Then go to phpMyAdmin, click on the SQL button and import the database.mysql file. This file doesn't exist in my drupal tree. I can't seem to find info on how to create the mysql db that drupal needs. Can anyone point me to a site that will tell me how to start with a downloaded version of xampp and drupal 5.3 and go through the steps to setup a new drupal test site on my local machine. I am not moving an existing drupal site to my local machine so there is no database.

Thanks,
Ed

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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gpk’s picture

gpk commented

All you need to do is create an empty DB. From 5.x, Drupal creates the tables automatically.

Info on XAMPP etc: http://drupal.org/node/161975.

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CelticDaddio’s picture

CelticDaddio commented

Do I put drupal directly in htdocs? And what is the url I go to? http;//localhost/xampp/drupal?

Ed

johnbeamer’s picture

johnbeamer commented

htdocs for Drupal

http://localhost/drupal is the home page

CelticDaddio’s picture

CelticDaddio commented

How do I create the DB?
Ed

dman’s picture

dman commented

You should probably try reading install.txt
Either that or go into phpmyadmin and see if you can find a 'new database' button.

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drupalqat commented

Handbook page: http://drupal.org/node/161975

First you need to create a database (go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin/, create new database, just give it a name ) and then install drupal.