installing Drupal 6 through WindowsXP?

Posted by J-man on June 15, 2009 at 3:30pm

Is there anyone out there that has installed Drupal 6 through WindowsXP? I'm stumped and don't know where to turn.

My Drupal files default to Mocrosoft Picture It files. What's up? I've downloaded more than once but get the same results.

Comments

What webserver are you

Posted by bfitzgerald on June 15, 2009 at 5:01pm

What webserver are you using?

I used easyphp I just unzipped the drupal folder into the appropriate folder started easyphp typed in localhost into the browser navigated to the folder and clicked install.

give a description of what you are doing and I can probably help

Install WAMP stack

Posted by mjohnq3 on June 15, 2009 at 5:52pm

It sounds like you haven’t actually installed a web server on your system. You need to install what is known as a WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack to set up a web server on Windows. There are several available – XAMMP and WampServer2 are very popular.

If you want to quickly learn about Drupal without the complexities of setting up and configuring a WAMP stack, you should download the Acquia Drupal DAMP stack available from www.acquia.com. This installation includes a complete, configured web server stack, the latest version (6.12) of Drupal, and an assortment of contributed modules.

Windows Install

Posted by anilo on June 21, 2009 at 7:05am

I followed this very simple tutorial to install WAMP and then Drupal.

http://learnbythedrop.com

-Anil