By krrishnaaaa on

I want to install Drupal 6.x on my webserver and in my cpanel under "Fantastico De Luxe" i have a option to install "Drupal". The problem is I don't know to install by extracting drupal in a directory on my webserver or through cpanel.

Will both installation be same or what?

Thank you,
Krrishnaaaa

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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bojanz’s picture

bojanz commented

No, since the Fantastico version is usually out-dated.
It probably reports the Drupal version somewhere, so you can compare it with the one on drupal.org
If it's not the same, forget about Fantastico.

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saepl commented

Here is a very quick guide to installing drupal. This assumes you have Cpanel available to you.

  • In Cpanel click on mysql database wizard and create your username and password and select all options for reading/writing. Remember the information given on the last page you'll need this to install Drupal
  • Download drupal from www.drupal.org
  • In cpanel click on file manager (make sure you select to see hidden files), go into public_html folder and click on upload and upload the file you downloaded from drupal.org
  • After the upload is done you can close that window and then right click on the file and expand it. You can now delete the file you uploaded
  • Go into the folder created and select all and then right click and select move. You'll see the path like /home/username/public_html/drupal-6-5 or something like that, just delete the folder name. This will move your drupal files in the public_html folder

    • go into sites folder then default folder. Copy default.settings.php and select the folder to be the sites folder. Go into the sites folder, right click to rename the file to rename it to settings.php and copy the file into the sites/default folder

  • In your web browser go to your website and you should see the drupal installation window.
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krrishnaaaa commented

Thank you guys for your help.. Now i'm ready, I think..