How can i start drupal base website?

find a host
install drupal
you are now running a drupal based website

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Hi,
If you are not sure of how to create databases, upload via ftp, and all the extra things required to setup Drupal or any other web application, you may want to look for a hoster that will do this for you, there are several that will install Drupal on a 'One click button'

Try this for example: http://www.drupalvaluehosting.com/members/order.php

There are a lot more, you should first start reading like crazy, checking their packages and features, it is a hard task because there are a lot of options, and a lot of variables to consider, it mostly depends on what you plan to do with your website.

Check out this link I gave you, look around on your own, and post any questions that you may have.

Will try to guide you through.

And yes host = hosting company

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Felipe

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As a newbie, I understand the frustration of getting started and often the answers we get are not very clear to newbies.

You will need to have a hosting company that supports drupal and that will give you at least ftp access (if you are not technical it does not matter if they don't give you ssh access). Make sure that they also give you a database (All i know is MySQL)

1. Go and download the latest version of drupal.
2. Extract the file into a new folder
3. Logon to you web hosting company via ftp. You can usually do this using an ftp client or using a web browser and typing in ftp://yourdomainname.com/ (ask your hosting company what you should use, sometimes they will give you an IP address or a name like ftp.yourdomainname.com)
4. Copy all the files in your extracted directory to your www folder on your domain.

Most sites will also give you a control panel that will allow you to add e-mail accounts, add databases and tools to administer your database.

5. Logon to your sites control panel (once again you will have to ask your hosting company how you do this)
6. You should then go and create a database. In general there will be a tool that will allow you to do this.
7. Once you have created a database you must add a user that will have all privliges for this database. This can usually be done using something like phpAdmin tool. [IMPORTANT: remember the username and password that you use and the name of the database]

Drupal works with a database and in order for it to work you must tell drupal what database to use and what username & password to use in order to connect to this database. In order to do this you will need to edit a file in drupal. The file you will need to change is called settings.php [I am only familiar with drupal-5.3 and it might be different in new drupal releases I am not sure] Doing this via ftp is not the safest thing in the world, but if your site is not top secret information, then to get started it is okay.

8. Go and edit the file that you will find at /sites/default/settings.php
9. Look for the line that says:
*/
$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
$db_prefix = '';

Over here you must change the username to the username that you defined in point 7, change the password as well and the databasename, it will look like
$db_url = 'mysql://mike:qwe123@localhost/mynewdrupaldb';

10. Now you should copy this file onto your hosting company and make sure you put it in the same directory.
11. You should then go to your site via a web browser http://www.yourdomain.com and you will be prompted with the drupal first page. It will ask you to put in your username, password and your database. If all is well you will be taken to the drupal administrator page where you will need to create the first drupal account.

Then like all the others say, start reading and discovering the power of drupal. If you have a little bit of patience and understanding you will soon discover the power of drupal.

Hope this helps, and if something is mis-explained I will be happy to hear corrections from the experts.

Another, very low cost alternative is to gain some experience with drupal by installing it on your local system. After you gain some experience working with it on your PC/local system, the follow-on steps to working with a hosting company should be clearer. (Note that I am not suggesting you host a live site on your local system - just that you gain some experience by installing some modules, playing with themeing, etc. )

If you're on Windows, you can set up a WAMP environment. There are several good sites on the net - for example http://wamp.corephp.co.uk/index.php (note that I am not suggesting this is the best guide, and if you search a little you should find similar pages.) It should have a link that explains how to set up MySQl as well. After you have an operational system you can easily download and install drupal.

Also, there is a small Romania group listed in groups.drupal.org.

Noroc!