Installing Drupal/Setting up Test Site (noob)
Xenro - November 6, 2009 - 10:39
I'm just trying to set up a test site and install Drupal. Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time. I read the guide but it's still confusing. As you can see, it's not really in a step by step format, more like "you need to have this, this, blah blah". Any help is appreciated. For more info, I'm using XP and Firefox browser. Thanks.
1. Download drupal and
1. Download drupal and extract to a directory in your server (if you're using XAMPP on windows xp, extract drupal somewhere inside htdocs, for instance, htdocs/drupal)
2. Create a directory inside your sites directory with the name of your test site for instance sites/mytestsite
3. copy the default.settings.php file from the default directory into sites/mytestsite and rename it settings.php
4. Go to phpmyadmin and create an empty database called for instance mytestsitedb in utf_unicode format
5. Follow the steps outlined here: http://www.salamanderworld.com/help/articles-and-tutorials/howto/drupal-...